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SECT. Parts of a Law.

and the Sanctional otherwise called the
vindicatory: and in "every law" these parts are
to be met with. Let us consider what he says of each.

The declaratory part, is that "whereby the rights
"to be observed, and the wrongs to be eschewed are
"clearly defined and laid down".

Here we are once more thrown back again, and instead of being told of actions that are to be done or
amused with the vague notions or right and to be abstained from, – language that every one understands
we are told once more thrown back again and told once more of rights
wrongs and wrongs: words which themselves stand much more in need
of explanation than the word Law which they are
brought in to explain.

For what purpose the word "clearly" was brought in
I am is more than I can guess conjecture. That the wo rights
to be observed, and the wrongs to be eschewed (whatever
rights and wrongs mean) ought to be "clearly defined
and laid down"; is what any one would join with
him in thinking: but that they actually are in every Law that is
every defined and laid down is much better
news than I one could have imagined to be true.
Devoted adorer as our Author is of the works of the powers
that be, and still more of those that have been, the
In a proposition is too such a degree extravagant, to
be imputed even to him: or one might suppose
that as it is with ecclesiastical laws in every respect, so it
is with all laws in this respect, every thing is
as it should be.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field	sect. viii municipal law sect. viii parts of a law
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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