Least of My Brethren

Ernest Weinrib is a university professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto where he taught courses on law and classics for more than five decades.

• Domingo de Soto on Poverty and PropertyI The Crisis of Pauperism: Tavera’s LawII The Precept of AlmsgivingIII Roads and HospitalityIV IusV Subjective RightsVI The Right to BegVII Lucrum CessansVIII Common Possession and Private PropertyIX Extreme NecessityX RestitutionXI Conclusion Translated TextsDeliberation in the Matter of the Poor (1545) (the Proposed Regulation of Beggars)Chapter II: Containing the NarrationChapter III: On VagabondsChapter IV: On Foreign BeggarsChapter V: Response to ObjectionsChapter VI: On Pilgrims to SantiagoChapter VII: On the End Applicable to the Arrangements about the PoorChapter VIII: On the Obligation to Give Alms Incumbent upon ChristiansChapter IX: On Examining the Poverty of BeggarsChapter X: On Examining the Life of the PoorChapter XI: On the Reason for Permitting Solicitation from Door to DoorChapter XII: In Which the Reasons and Causes for Prohibiting the Poor from Begging Are Examined Commentary on Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 32 (1539–1540) (the Precept of Almsgiving)De Dominio 1–8 (1535) (Ownership and Use)De Dominio 19–23 (1535) (the Origin of Private Property)De Iustitia et Iure, IV, q. 1, a. 1 (1553) (Private Property and Right)De Iustitia et Iure, IV, q. 3, a. 1 (1553) (the Origin of Private Property)De Iustitia et Iure, V, q. 3, a. 4 (1553) (Stealing out of Necessity)De Iustitia et Iure, IV, q. 7, a. 1 (1553) (Restitution of What Was Taken)Note on the Texts TranslatedBibliographyIndex

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