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Heineccius, A Methodical System of Universal Law: Or, the Laws
of Nature and Nations, with Supplements and a Discourse by
George Turnbull. Translated from the Latin by George Turnbull,
edited with an Introduction by Thomas Albert and Peter Schröder
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