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1820 Decr 3
J.B. to Colomb

established. A Constitutional Code was a work which
in some shape or other it was absolutely necessary to
have to go to work with: it was in the go on with:
the new government in each case found the possession of
it necessary to its very existence. But for a any one criminal
or a civil code there was no such indispensable necessity; under
what it whatever disadvantage, there is in each
instance the old system which it is possible, and
till a better can be made, necessary, to go on with.
But in each of those countries no sooner is a fresh Code
looked for, then the Code looked for will be the best Code
that is to be had. More will look for Consistency will
be looked for, examples will be looked for from those defects
which in the Spanish Code have already been
not only seen but felt by Spaniards themselves, not to
speak of whose which it would be so easy to point out.
As a security for those against the like defects, no work
as for whatever improvements the advances made by
the age may be capable of affording they will actually
look be on the look out for the name of some
determinate individual whose views on the subject have been
made known by his works, who will be responsible
for whatever he prepared:: receives reaps whatsoever
of honour in the or dishonour may be regarded as
due to each distinguishable part of his work. To be exempt
from all such responsibility is of the essence of a
Committee acting as your Committee on Legislation does
and can not avoid doing in secret. Either It is not only of
the essence of institution
But

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Date_1	1820-12-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	133	Info in main headings field	jb to colomb
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	jeremy bentham; john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2726, vol. 10	ID Number	4582
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