JB/016/167/001

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1828. Jany. 6
Law Amendments.Propositions
Ch. II Codification: or
Ch. III Remedies Duelling Enactments

Ratiocinative

Art. Reasons for regarding these restrictive arrangements
affording a presence of power as promising to be effectual, those notwithstanding the utter inefficiency
of the existing ones everywhere, – these:

1. In England, frequent as long as memory reaches
have been the instances in which after challenge given
received information having been to a Magistrate by some
friend, the parties have been bound over as the phrase is – to keep
the peace: after the administration of this prevention
few if any – (none at all it is believed) have been
the instances in which any such combat between the parties
has afterwards taken place. Thus, without the benefit of
the additional remedies the securities above-mentioned, that what the
fear of death could not prevent, has been thus effectually and especially prevented
extensively and infallibly prevented by the fear of losing
a sum of money: a sum which in many some instances
has formed no more than a small portion of the years
income of the one or both a thus pacified belligerents.

2. The remedy thus afforded by the existing system
though good apt as far as it goes, and affording a goo
and promise of a compleat one, does not apply to every
species of duellist, are in the case of any species, to every individual
wit set of circumstances: it in every individual instance the applicability
of it may be frustrated by the parties keeping
their own secret.

3. A more powerful auxiliary to it is wanting
by the non addition of that arrangement in virtue of which if
the would be manslayer succeeds his enterprize, not
only will his own fortune be ruined but, at his expence, the fortune property
of the persons dearest to his adversary – be the man when he had devoted
to destruction, augmented at his expense.

Identifier: | JB/016/167/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1828-01-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	016	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	167	Info in main headings field	law amendments
Image	001	Titles	rationale
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	5974
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