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1819 June 23
Deontology Private
1. Theoretical
1. Benevolence & Justice.
Justice civil — distributive & penal & remunerative =
Justice Under the system of utility, justice, as hath been already
explained, is but a modification of benevolence: benevolence
considered in so far as it belongs to the field of the present work as applying to those cases in which no provision
or no adequate provision has been made by the power
of the law: in which case the dictates of justice belong
to the subject of political deontology.
To In the field of private deontology the dictates of
justice may have place in respect of any act in so far
as it is considered as being the subject of obligation:
of obligation from any one of the sources of obligation
that is to say from any one of the several sanctions.
As in other cases the force and dictates of the
several sanctions are liable to vary and become opposite
to each other in respect of the direction in
which they act so in the present case.
The two sanctions, in the case of which as between, variance
and opposition is most apt to take place and in
which the importance of such variance is the most
considerable are the legal and the popular or moral.
The provision
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