JB/016/199/001

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1828. Jany. 13
Law Amendment or Penal Code

Propositions

Homicide
Existing System
Suicide

7
Encrease of affliction to
afflicted relatives

The afflicted relatives — wife, husband, children, father and
mother, are not sufficiently afflicted, unless besides being deprived
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,
evidence the as to the presumed cause of this as well as so many other
incongruities Case of Misdeeds it is no secret. [The offence [being]
declared felonious; consequence — seizure of the property by the Mandate
with pickings for the lawyers and other sub-functionaries — his
.

8
Palliative found in
habitual perjury

The abuse has found its palliative. But what is it?
Case of Dead under 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 fender.[+]1

9
Religion held forth as
a pretence for the perjury

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

10
Against suicide, nothing
in any Gospel or Epistle

Against suicide, at large not a syllable not any the
recorded 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 rejected by
the Christian, divers individual criminals succeed. in no instance
is any disapprobation of the act in any shape expressed.

[+]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.

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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