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man's creation infused into him, for his 
preservation and direction ; and this is lex 
ceterna, and may not be changed ; and no 
laws shall be made or kept, that are express- 
ly against tire law of God, written in his 
scripture; as to forbid what he com- 
mandeth. 
All laws derive their force a legenaturce ; 
and those which do not, are accounted as 
no laws. No law will make a construc- 
tion to do wrong; and there are some 
things which the law favours, and some it 
dislikes ; it favonreth those things that come 
from the order of nature. Also our law 
hath much more respect to life, liberty, 
freehold, inheritance, matters of record, 
and of substance ; than to chattels, things 
in the personalty, matters not of record, on 
circumstances. , 
Law of nations, is a system of rules de- 
ducible by natural reason, from the immu- 
table principles of natural justice, and esta- 
blished by universal consent amongt the ci- 
vilized inhabitants of the world, in order to 
dechle all disputes, and to insure the, ob- 
servance of justice and good faith, in that 
intercourse which must I'requently occur 
between them and the individuals belong- 
ing to each ; or they may depend upon mu- 
tual compacts, treaties, leagues, and agree- 
ments between the separate, free, and inde- 
pendent communities. In the construction 
of these principles, there, is no judge to re- 
sort to, but the general law of nature and 
of reason, being the only law with which 
the contracting parties are all equally con- 
versant, and to w hich they are all equally 
amenable. Laws have properly their etk 
feet only in the country where and for 
which they have been enacted. However, 
1. Tliose which relate to the state, and to 
the pensonai condition of the, subjects, are 
acknowledged in foreign countries, g. A 
foreigner, who is plaintitf against a subject, 
must abide by the decisions of the law of 
the country in which he pleads. 3. When 
tlic validity of an act done in a foreign 
country is in question, it ought to be de- 
cided by the laws of that foreign country. 
4. Sometimes the parties agree to the ques- 
tion being determined by particular laws of 
a foreign country, o- A foreign law may 
have been received as a subsidiary law. 
6. Foreigners sometimes obtain the pri- 
vilege of having their disputes with each 
other settled by the laws of their own 
country. 
LA’VFSONTA, in botany, so named from 
Isaac Lawson, M, D. a gepus of the Octan- 
diia Monogynia class and order. Natural 
order of Salicaria?, Jussieu. E.ssential cha- 
racter: calyx four-cleft; petals four; sta- 
mens in four pairs; capsule four-celled, 
many-seeded. There are four species ; na- 
tives of warm countries. 
LAXMANNIA, in botany, so called 
from Ericus Laxman, a Swede, a genus of 
the Hexandria Monogynia class and order. 
Essential character: calyx one-leafed, four- 
toothed, inferior; corolla four-petalled ; 
berry four-celled ; seeds solitary. 
LAYERS, in gardening, are tender shoots, 
or twigs of trees, laid or buried in the 
ground; till having struck root, they are 
separated from the parent tree, and become 
distinct plants. 
LAZULITE, in mineralogy, is of a deep 
smalt blue : it occurs disseminated in fine 
grains, or masses of the size of a hazel nut. 
The latter often present the appearance of 
shoit tetrahedral prisms. Its fracture is 
uneven, with a glimmering lustre. It is 
brittle, and easily frangible : at a red heat 
it loses its colour, and becomes grey. With- 
out addition it is infusible before the blow- 
pipe, but with borax it runs into a clear 
yellow glass. It has been analyzed by Kla- 
proth, and is found to contain silex, alumi- 
na, and oxide of iron. 
LAZUKSTEIN, in mineralogy, called 
also azure-stone, a species of the flint genus, 
is of a perfect azure blue colour, in some 
varieties it passes into sky blue : it is found 
massive, disseminated, and in rolled pieces : 
hard, brittle, and not heavy: specific gra- 
vity is from 2.7 to 2.9.5. It melts into a 
white enamel before the blow-pipe. When 
previously calcined and powdered, it forms 
a jelly with acids: it is composed of 
Silica 46.0 
Alumina 14.5 
Carbonate of lime 28.0 
Sulphate of lime 6 5 
Oxide of iron 3.0 
Water 2.0 
100.0 
It has been found in Persia, Buchariaj 
China, Great Tartary, and Siberia ; it is also 
obtained in considerable quantities in the 
island of Hainan, in the Chinese sea, from 
whence it is sent fo Canton, where it is epi- 
ployed in painting. It has likewise been 
met with in South America ; and in Europe 
among the ruins at Rome. It is used in 
various articles of ornamental dress, and in 
Mosaic and Florentine work, and is highly 
