Sem i°. s regtdredbetween man andMan e 23i ought tobe allowed, as is n$istraally and univerfally bell. And this every man is prefumed to delire , becaufe this will be certainly good for e- very one, whereas if it be nor univerfally good , it may be bad for a- ny one, if it be not mutually fo , it will be bad for me by turns. 2. That proportion ofgain which allows a reafonable compenfationfor oar time,andpains,and hazard,is univerfally andmutually bell. If the com- penfation be unreafonably greit, it will be bid for the buyer, if unrea- fonably little, it will be bad for the feller, if equal, and reafona ;le, is will be good for all. 3 . That proportion of gain, which in common intercourfe and ufe of bar- gaining who unde>Rand what they buy andfell, isgenerally al- lowed ; ought to be deemed a reafonable compenf tion. This is evi- dent , becaufe the common reafonof mankinde doth befl determine what is reafonable. Therefore chofe who fpeak of commutative juflice, and place it in the equality of things contracted for , need explaining, for value is not a thing abfolute and certain , but relative , and ¡notable Now to fix the valueof things as much as may be , this Rule is com- monlygiven, Tanti unssmquodque valet,qu.anti vend; pateIL Every thing is worthfomuch as it may be fold for , which mull not be undertlodd too particularly , as if the prefent and particular appetite of the Con- traaor were to be the Rule, for every thing is not worth fo much as any body will give for it, but fo much as in common intercourfe a- mong knowing perlons it will give. For this I take for a truth, that -. in theordinary plenty of commodities, there is an ordin 'ry and ufual price Of them known to the underflandingperlons of everyprofeflion; If I be out in this, the matter of gain will be more uncertain than I thought on. 4. A reafonable compenfation doth not confill inan indivi(ïblepoint, bat hash acertain latitude which liklewife is to be determined by the common in- tercourfe and prat-liceof mankiinde. Suppofe ten in the hundre be the u- fual gain made of fuch a commodity,eleven the highefi,nine the loweft, the latitude is betwixt nine and eleven. 5. Everyman ingaged ;naway ofCommerce, isprefumed to ssnderfland, un,lefs the contrary be evident. So that keeping within the latitude of a lawful gain, I may ufe my skill againa another man in driving a bar- gain. But if his want of skill be evident (that is )' fufliciently known to me, I muff fife him as I would do a childe, orother unskilful perfon, that is,fairly. 6. Where the price of things alters (as it often cloth almoll in ail things )
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