[24] See especially about the question of interest, the controversy between Proudhon and Bastiat. (Works of Bastiat, vol. v., Gratuity of Credit.)
[25] Mode of reckoning in the time of Louis XIV.
[26] The scene between father and son in The Miser (Sc. ii., Act iii.).
[27] See, in Molière’s Don Juan, the charming scene between Don Juan and Mr. Dimanche.
[28] “Things lost cannot give rise to an action for theft, when the finder, after having looked for their proprietor in vain, and only retained them when his researches proved fruitless, has ascertained that the proprietor will not present himself. But if the thing has been taken with the intention of appropriating it, if it has an owner, although unknown, there is no doubt about the delinquency.” (Faustin-Hélie, Droit pénal, iv. edit., Leçon v., p. 66.)
[29] The play in Latin is on the words otiandi and negotiandi.—Translator.
[30] De Officiis, Book III., ch. xiv.
[31] Definition of the canon law.
[32] Digest, II., § 3, De Furtis.
[33] Traité des obligations, Part I., ch. i., § 2.