Book 1
15.7
and further, that justice is real and expedient, but not that which only appears just; nor the written law either, because it does not do the work of the lawWhich is the administration of real justice, not that which appears to the legislator to be such and is embodied in legal enactments.; that the judge is like an assayer of silver, whose duty is to distinguish spurious from genuine justice;
15.8
that it is the part of a better man to make use of and abide by the unwritten rather than the written law.Cp.14.7 above.
15.9
Again, it is necessary to see whether the law is contradictory to another approved law or to itself; for instance, one law enacts that all contracts should be binding, while another forbids making contracts contrary to the law.
15.10
If the meaning of the law is equivocal, we must turn it about, and see in which way it is to be interpreted so as to suit the application of justice or expediency, and have recourse to that.
15.11
If the conditions which led to the enactment of the law are now obsolete, while the law itself remains, one must endeavor to make this clear and to combat the law by this argument.
