Box 67 contains a wide range of material, spanning five decades from the 1780s to the early-1830s, on libel, liberty of the press, and Bentham’s proposed Penal Code. The material concerning libel covers the periods of 1807 and 1817, while the the Penal Code material was written over a sixty-year period up until 1830. See, in particular, Bentham’s plan for his Civil Code (fos. 164–83).

Detailed contents of this box are as follows:

• Folios 1 to 28: [Penal Code] Introduction - Definition of offences; [c.1780]
• Folios 29 to 43: [Libel Law] Press - Liberty of the Press; [chiefly marginal outlines] 1809, 1817
• Folios 44 to 55: [Libel Law] C. of defamation; [c. 1810]
• Folio 56: Penal Code - Dumont - Code; 1817
• Folios 57 to 89: Penal Code - Political defamation; 1818
• Folios 90 to 93: Penal Code - collectanea; [c. 1827-28 and earlier]
• Folios 94 to 98: Penal Code - Offences; 1825-28
• Folios 99 to 113: Law Amendment or Penal Code - Codification; 1828
• Folios 114 to 163: Penal Code - Wrongs; 1818, 1827
• Folios 164 to 183: Penal Code - Plan of the work; 1827
• Folios 184 to 362: Penal Code - Book II Offences; 1804, 1818, 1825-30

Folios from box 67 which have already been partially or fully transcribed are listed under the progress bar below.

Box 67 Progress: Transcription begun

Untranscribed: 63
In Progress: 23
Ready For Review: 0
Completed: 321
Total: 407

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