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Letter I
Fair Copy sent to M Peel's House, Corrected Broullion endorsement Private 19 Aug 1826

On Mr Humphreys's proposed Property Code
Offer in relation to to it.

Queens Square Place Westminster Saty 19 Aug. 1826.

By the liberty taken in this address I regard
myself as ministering to your beneficent designs. This
is my apology: no other apology I hope is requisite.

Seeing t'other day by accident a Book intituled
"Observations on real property, by James Humphreys
of Lincoln's Inn Esq. &Barrister", I sent and bought t'other day a copy
of it.

Of all reforms or improvements you can have
had in view in addition to the plan Statute Consolidation plan,
(not to speak of minor ones) this presents itself to me as the most promising, as well as at
present the most extensively practicable: resistance minimized;
thence probability of success – true honour, useful and well
earned influence, maximized. In one class, and not the most With the exception of one class of lawyer
influential class of lawyers, I see the only class whose interests
will be naturally thwarted by it. With this conception, every
In turn man, who, in relation to land, has either property or hope
of property, either in possession, expectancy or hope, I see a man who will be served by it: and those most who have
most property: for at present all such property stands on
rather tatters, upon a foundation similar to that of the
Custom House. Whether, for the sake of security in all other
shapes, the Aristocrats some men would give up the facilities they have
so carefully avariciously preserved for themselves, for obtaining money on
false

Identifier: | JB/011/201/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1826-08-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field	letter i corrected brouillon
Image	001	Titles	on mr humphrys's proposed property code / offer in relation to it
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	w weatherley 1825
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr2
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1825
Notes public	[[notes_public::"fair copy sent to mr peel's house, endorsement private 19 aug 1826" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	3898
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