aggressor
allows not
time to
appeal to
our common
judge, nor
the
decision
of the
law, for
remedy in
a case
where the
mischief
may be
irreparable.
Want of a
common
judge with
authority,
puts all
men in a
state of
nature:
force
without
right,
upon a
man’s
person,
makes a
state of
war, both
where
there is,
and is
not, a
common
judge. .
20. But
when the
actual
force is
over, the
state of
war ceases
between
those that
are in
society,
