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Now of Justs and Lawfuls each bears to the acts which embody and

exemplify it the relation of an universal to a particular; the

acts being many, but each of the principles only singular because

each is an universal. And so there is a difference between an

unjust act and the abstract Unjust, and the just act and the

abstract Just: I mean, a thing is unjust in itself, by nature or

by ordinance; well, when this has been embodied in act, there is

an unjust act, but not till then, only some unjust thing.[24] And

similarly of a just act. (Perhaps δικαιοπράγημα is more correctly

the common or generic term for just act, the word δικαίωμα, which

I have here used, meaning generally and properly the act

corrective of the unjust act.) Now as to each of them, what kinds

there are, and how many, and what is their object-matter, we must

examine afterwards.