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1828. Jany. 13
Law Amendment or Penal CodePropositions

The afflicted relatives – wife, husband, children, father
mother, are not sufficiently afflicted, unless besides being the
bread of the means of subsistence if dependent on his life,
they have before their eyes the spectacle of his body exposed
for the declared purpose of ignominy on the highway. But,
as the as to the permanent cause of this as well as so many other
incongruities Case of it is no secret. The offence being
declared felonous, consequence – seizure of the property by the
with pickings for the lawyers and other sub-functionaries – his
.

The alarm has found its palliative. But what is it?
Case of It is habitual perjury. The act is an act of calculation.
The calculation, it being upon their oaths declare to be an act
of insanity. As well might they give that name to an act
by which money is laid out on the finder.⊞1
⊞1 By a recent law-reforming Statute the dead man body has been saved
from the stake: not so the afflicted relatives from the loss of their all; nor Jurymen from the perjury.
This would have been visionary, theoretical, speculative.

While under this act of common law, perjury
remains established religion is laid hold of to form a practice
for it. Religion? by what is religion is by which so much as the shadow of
of a pretence afforded? Not by the Christian. Admitt the act The act being to be voluntary
the act of Jesus – the great crowning catastrophe of his life, was
an act of suicide. No purpose comfort of a vast populace
of the human species: admitted: but if that be
preservation if though it be but of a single individual for
a life of misery may at any rate be allowable.

Against suicide, at large not a syllable not any the
is to be found in any Gospel – or any Epistle.
If Judas the traytor lay himself, no additional guilt is imputed to him.
Under the Jewish religion, partly adopted partly by
the Christian, divers individual succeeds in an instance
is any disapprobation of the act in any shape expressed.

Identifier: | JB/016/199/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1828-01-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-10
Box	016	Main Headings
Folio number	199	Info in main headings field	law amendment or penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
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	6006
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