| Editorial Notes | p. xiii |
| Introduction | p. xv |
| Unfair Discrimination | |
| Is unfair discrimination a sin? | p. 3 |
| Does it occur in granting spiritual rights and benefits? | p. 7 |
| Can it occur in paying honour and reverence? | p. 11 |
| Can it occur in the giving of judgements? | p. 15 |
| Homicide | |
| Is killing any living thing illicit? | p. 19 |
| Is it legitimate to kill sinners? | p. 21 |
| May a private individual kill a man? | p. 25 |
| Is it legitimate for clerics to kill malefactors? | p. 29 |
| Is it legitimate for somebody to kill himself? | p. 31 |
| Is it ever permissible to kill an innocent person? | p. 37 |
| Is it legitimate for a man to kill another in self-defence? | p. 39 |
| Is somebody who kills another by accident guilty of homicide? | p. 45 |
| Other Injuries to the Person | |
| Is it ever legitimate to mutilate somebody? | p. 49 |
| Are fathers allowed to beat their sons, or masters their slaves? | p. 53 |
| Is it legitimate to imprison another? | p. 55 |
| Is sin aggravated by the fact that the objects of the aforesaid injuries are related to others? | p. 57 |
| Theft and Robbery with Violence | |
| Is the possession of external goods natural to man? | p. 65 |
| Is it legitimate for individual men to possess such goods as their own? | p. 65 |
| Is theft the surreptitious taking of another person's goods? | p. 69 |
| Is robbery with violence a sin specifically different from theft? | p. 73 |
| Is all theft a sin? | p. 77 |
| And a mortal sin? | p. 77 |
| Is theft justifiable in case of necessity? | p. 81 |
| Is it possible for robbery not to be a sin? | p. 83 |
| Is all robbery with violence a graver sin than theft? | p. 87 |
| Injustice on the Part of the Judge | |
| Can anyone justly judge somebody not subject to him? | p. 89 |
| Is a judge entitled to give judgement on the basis of the evidence adduced before him counter to the truth known to him? | p. 93 |
| Can a judge justly condemn a man who has not been accused? | p. 95 |
| Is it legitimate to mitigate a penalty? | p. 99 |
| Injustice of a Complaint in Law | |
| Is a man bound to lay a complaint in law? | p. 103 |
| Does it have to be in writing? | p. 105 |
| How may a complaint be vitiated? | p. 109 |
| How are those who accuse others unjustly to be punished? | p. 111 |
| Injustice in Conducting the Defence | |
| Is it a mortal sin to deny true evidence which would lead to conviction? | p. 115 |
| Is one entitled to commit perjury in self-defence? | p. 119 |
| Is one entitled to evade judgement by appealing? | p. 121 |
| Is a convicted person entitled to use violence in self-defence if he has the chance to do so? | p. 125 |
| Injustice on the Part of Witnesses | |
| Is a man obliged to give evidence? | p. 129 |
| Is the evidence of two or three sufficient? | p. 133 |
| Can a witness's evidence be rejected even though he is not at fault? | p. 137 |
| Is it a mortal sin to give false evidence? | p. 139 |
| Injustice on the Part of Lawyers | |
| Is a lawyer bound to give his services to the poor? | p. 143 |
| May some be debarred from acting as lawyers? | p. 147 |
| Does a lawyer sin by defending an unjust cause? | p. 149 |
| Is it a sin to accept payment for rendering legal services? | p. 151 |
| Defamation | |
| What is defamation? | p. 157 |
| Is all defamation mortal sin? | p. 161 |
| Ought defamers to be restrained? | p. 163 |
| What is the origin of defamation? | p. 167 |
| Detraction | |
| What is detraction? | p. 171 |
| Is it a mortal sin? | p. 173 |
| How does it compare with other sins? | p. 177 |
| Does someone who listens to a detractor commit a sin? | p. 181 |
| Whispering | |
| Is whispering a sin distinct from detraction? | p. 187 |
| Which is the graver of the two? | p. 189 |
| Ridicule | |
| Is ridicule a special sin distinct from other sins by which harm is inflicted on one's neighbour through words? | p. 193 |
| Is it a mortal sin? | p. 195 |
| Cursing | |
| Is one entitled to curse a man? | p. 201 |
| Or any of God's non-rational creatures? | p. 205 |
| Is cursing a mortal sin? | p. 207 |
| How does it compare with other sins? | p. 209 |
| Fraud in Buying and Selling | |
| Can selling be unjust by reason of the price? | p. 213 |
| Can selling be unjust on account of a flaw in the thing sold? | p. 217 |
| Is the seller bound to disclose any such defect? | p. 221 |
| Is one entitled to sell something for more than one had paid for it? | p. 225 |
| Usury | |
| Is it a sin to make a charge for lending money? | p. 233 |
| Is one entitled to take anything by way of compensation for a loan? | p. 241 |
| Is one bound to restore any gains from the profits of lending? | p. 247 |
| Is one entitled to borrow money subject to the payment of interest? | p. 249 |
| Quasi-Component Parts of Justice | |
| Are avoiding evil and doing good parts of justice? | p. 255 |
| Is transgression a special category of sin? | p. 259 |
| Is omission a special category of sin? | p. 261 |
| How do transgression and omission compare | p. 265 |
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| Parts and Whole, Common End, Legal Justice and Law | p. 271 |
| Private Property according to St Thomas and Recent Papal Encyclicals | p. 275 |
| Glossary | p. 284 |
| Index | p. 287 |
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