Box 96 contains papers written in the 1770s which deal with matters of legislation and crime and punishment. Bentham discusses adultery, drunkenness, homicide and laws against religious dissenters (read more about religion). The box also contains comment on Blackstone's Commentaries.

• PLEASE NOTE: Bentham's 'Comment on the Commentaries', part of which features in folios 1–59 of Box 96, has been published in A Comment on the Commentaries and A Fragment on Government, eds. J.H. Burns and H.L.A. Hart, London, 1977.

More detailed contents of this box are as follows:

• Folios 1 to 50: Comment on the Commentaries. Sections I-VII [c.1775]
• Folios 51 to 59: Comment on the Commentaries. Sections I-III [c.1774-75]
• Folios 60 to 71: Legislation, raw materials. Blackstone and Barrington, I-XI [c.1773]
• Folios 72 to 97: Legislation. General contents of the work as divided into books [c.1773]
• Folios 98 to 127: Legislation. Raw materials. Introduction [c.1770-75]
• Folios 128 to 131: Legislation. Maupertuis (definitions of pain and pleasure) [c.1773]
• Folios 132 to 135: Legislation. Introduction, chapter I - encyclopaedic sketch [c.1773]
• Folios 136 to 220: Legislation. sanctions, aestimation, punishment adultery, fornication, drunkenness, swearing, homicide [c.1773]
• Folio 221: Legislation - composition [c.1773]
• Folios 222 to 230: Legislation. Vol. I Example - Builders' Act [c.1773]
• Folios 231 to 232: Legislation. Analysis of Turnpike Act [c.1773]
• Folios 233 to 341: Legislation. Promulgation, appeal. Prelude, evidence, certainty, indirect legislation, gin-drinking, subscription, Dissenters penal laws, Sabbath [c.1773]
• Folios 342 to 352: Legislation. Miscellaneous fragments [c.1773]
• Folios 353 to 358: Legislation. Table showing the number of published acts each year [c.1773]
• Folios 359 to 380: Legislation. Suite of topics for collectanea. Hodge Podge Acts [c.1773]

Folios from box 96 which have already been partially or fully transcribed are listed under the progress bar below.

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