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SECT. Parts of a Law.

municipal Law depend upon them, I see not why
the wisdom and will of the Legislators should be
less concerned than if there were no such things. † were it otherwise.
At any rate I suppose there must be a
will of the Legislator exerted: else I don't
know what's to become of the Law. And if
the Municipal Law must at all events ‡ come what will of it depend depend (not that
I understand perfectly what [our Author means by] the meaning of
depending means upon those two Laws, it must require
no small share of wisdom, I should
conceive, to know determine find out what they have to do
in the affair. The His widest thing way I should
conceive would be to do what is desire actually
generally done – never to trouble his head himself
about them; neither in part directory declaratory
remedial nor sanctional supposing he
got them in his Law of the has in it these parts: but to provide on that behalf
according to the best of his judgment for the happiness
of the Society, in that behalf: what matter is a last course
no would take however that will cost him infinitely less painstaking & deliberation (if that
is meant by "wisdom") than the other.

This doctrine we are next told "deserves a more
particular explanation": hardly I should think
[however], as to deserving" tho' as to requiring, if
he had said that, it requires to make it


Identifier: | JB/028/067/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.

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028

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

067

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[[info_in_main_headings_field::sect. [ ] parts of a law]]

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003

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Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f4 / b5 / f6 / b7

Penner

jeremy bentham

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[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]

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Paper Producer

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Notes public

ID Number

9332

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