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its foreign commerce, ii. 121; was originally colonized by the Dorians, 297.

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Jamaica, the returns of trade from that island, why irregular, iii. 396.

Jewels. See Stones.

Jurisdictions, territorial, did not originate in the feudal law, ii. 110.

Justice, the administration of, a duty of the sovereign, iii. 68; in early times a source of revenue to him, 75; the making justice subservient to the revenue, a source of great abuses, 76; is never administered gratis, 78; the whole administration of, but an inconsiderable part of the expense of government, 80; how the whole expense of justice might be defrayed from the fees of court, 81; the interference of the jurisdictions of the several English courts of law, accounted for, 82; law language, how corrupted, 83; the judicial and executive power, why divided, 84; by whom the expense of the administration of, ought to be borne, 211.

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Kalm, the Swedish traveller, his account of the husbandry of the British colonies in North America, i. 332.

Kelp, a rent demanded for the rocks on which it grows, i. 227.

King, under feudal institutions, no more than the greatest baron in the nation, ii. 110; was unable to restrain the violence of his barons, 112.—Treasure-trove an important branch of revenue to, iii. 345; his situation how favorable for the accumulating treasure, ibid.; in a commercial country, naturally spends his revenue in luxuries, ibid.; is hence driven to call upon his subjects for extraordinary aids, 346.

King, Mr. Gregory, his account of the average price of wheat, i. 296.

Kings and their ministers, the greatest spendthrifts in a country, ii. 29.

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Labor, the fund which originally supplies every nation with its annual consumption, i. 39; how the proportion between labor and consumption is regulated, ibid.; the different kinds of industry seldom dealt impartially with by any nation, 41; the division of labor considered, 43; this division increases the quantity of work, 45; instances in illustration, 52–53; from what principle the division of labor originates, 55; the divisibility of, governed by the market, 60; labor the real measure of the exchangeable value of commodities, 75; different kinds of, not easily estimated by immediate comparison, 76–77; is compared by the intermediate standard of money, ibid.; is an invariable standard for the value of commodities, 79; has a real and a nominal price, 80; the quantity of labor employed on different objects, the only rule for exchanging them in the rude stages of society, 98; difference between the wages

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