Note 76 — XI THE LAW OF NATURE
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Gierke, ut supra. Baldus and other jurists declare that the Emperor ‘tenetur ratione naturali, cum ius naturae sit potentius principatu,’ and one goes so far as to hold him to be also bound by ius gentium. See Arthur Duck, De Usu et Authoritate Iuris Civilis, bk. i. chap. iii, § 12.