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Again, suppose that a man has made a wrongful award in ignorance;

in the eye of the law he does not act unjustly nor is his

awarding unjust, but yet he is in a certain sense: for the Just

according to law and primary or natural Just are not coincident:

but, if he knowingly decided unjustly, then he himself as well as

the receiver got the larger share, that is, either of favour from

the receiver or private revenge against the other party: and so

the man who decided unjustly from these motives gets a larger

share, in exactly the same sense as a man would who received part

of the actual matter of the unjust action: because in this case

the man who wrongly adjudged, say a field, did not actually get

land but money by his unjust decision.

Chapter XIV.