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1820 Novr 14
J.B. To Mora

Practical inference. What a man who draws a Code
for Spain should have is an invitation from the Minister ad
hoc writing by order of his Majesty.

Minister of Justice to J.B.

Seeing in the Journal of the Cortes (here to he quotes the paragraph)
in concurrence pursuance of the opinion therein expressed I write this
by order of his Majesty desiring you to draw up with
all convenient speed dispatch to draw up and transmitt
to me at Madrid the Form of a proposed Code of Penal
law, conformable to the principles brought to view in your
work entitled Traites de legislation Civile et Penale as
published by Mr Stephen Dumont of Geneva in the years
1802 and 1820: adding any such improvement as subsequent
reflection may have suggested: assuring you as
by his Majesty's command that any such Code so transmitted
by you shall immediately upon its arrival be laid before the Cortes
if that Assembly shall then be sitting, or if not, then so
soon as any such Assembly shall commence its sessions.
Thereupon so soon as any such Penal Code shall have been
compleated by you, his Majesty being by the report made to
him fully assured that in regard to the matter of a Civil
Code it is a fixt principle with you that every such Code
should have for its first object the securing to all citizens
their existing rights of property avoiding as much as possible
the defeating and disappointing of existing expectations, and that
equality of property as between man and man should not be
favoured promoted.

Identifier: | JB/013/057/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-11-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	057	Info in main headings field	jb to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2712, vol. 10	ID Number	4506
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