Gratian, Decretum D.1 c.8
Cologne, Dombibliothek 127 fol. 9r
Isidore of Seville (†636) Etymologiae
Natural rights (ius naturale) are common to
all peoples and exists everywhere through an inspiration of nature not
because of any human legislation. Examples are the coupling of men and women
. . . the common possession of property and the equal freedom
for all human
beings.
Isidore of Seville,
Etymologiae, ed. Wallace M. Lindsay (2
vol. Oxford Classical Texts; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1911)
Book 5.4: “Ius naturale est commune omnium nationum et quod ubique
instinctu naturae, non constitutione aliqua habetur ut
viri et feminae coniunctio . . .
communis omnium possessio
et omnium una libertas.”