Right is laid aside, either by simply renouncing it; or by transferring it to another. By “simply renouncing”; when he cares not to whom the benefit thereof redoundeth. By “transferring”; when he intendeth the benefit thereof to some certain person or persons. And when a man hath in either manner abandoned, or granted away his right; then is he said to be “obliged,” or “bound,” not to hinder those, to whom such right is granted, or abandoned, from the benefit of it: and that he “ought,” and it is his “duty,” not to make void that voluntary act of his own: and that such hindrance is “injustice,” and “injury,” as being sine jure
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