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1820 Decr 3

For the moment I will now take time to suppose
the invitation or commission in question resolved upon: a
few words short clause I would on that supposition humbly prepare for
insertion in it: not however meaning to deputate for them,
but only to submitt them for adoption or rejection as
may be deemed most advisable.

On the field case of a criminal code, to how not perceived perceive
comparatively speaking any great much expression of jealousy
or apprehension: crimes are bad things and it is everybody's
wish to see as few of them as possible. Not so in the case
of a civil code. Here property is to be disposed of: and
on the where in this part of the field whe a new Code is proposed a
new distribution of property is apt to present itself as
new being intended. Thereupon, by those whose interest it is, that property
should be left in that state of insecurity, into which
it has everywhere been plunged by a mixture of despotism
and lawyer-craft, thereupon a legion of hobgoblins, which,
for such purposes they keep in store, is of course let loose
upon the proposers and supporters of every any Code which
in proportion as to that same insecurity it substitutes real to pretended security can not in that respect fail to be
new. Jacobinism I mean, together with Spenceracism, Atticism
and I forget which others. Now it is – not the destruction of property but the
confirmation of it – the confirmation of it as it stands at
the present time, whatever be that time – that consideration
any Civil Code of my drawing, would be the main object.
Whether in the Constitutional Code, which they gave their sanction
it was the object is that Code or which for in the system of popular
representation they established universality, secrecy, equality
and only because Ultramaria was in view and instead
of annuality biannuality of suffrage, it was among the
objects of amendment by your Legislators to subtract or to give
stability to right of property may be left to them to answer to themselves.
But

Identifier: | JB/013/137/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-12-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	137	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / e13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	john flowerdew colls
Corrections	john flowerdew colls	Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public	letter 2726, vol. 10	ID Number	4586
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