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SECT: Parts of a Law.

present, nor even after the following example.

Thus for instance in civil duties; obedience
to superiors is the doctrine of revealed as well
as natural religion: but who those superiors
shall be, and in what circumstances, or to what
degree they shall be obeyed is the province
of human Laws to determine.

Here I suppose "obedience to superiors" is to
represent "the thing itself": that is the act of
paying obedience to superiors, or the Law commanding
men to do the act of paying obedience
to superiors, I can't tell which, and "who those
"superiors shall be, and in what circumstances
"or to what degrees they shall be obeyed", is the is to represent
purpose of human laws to determine "the particular circumstances and mode of
"doing it". As to this matter what I conceive
is this: (for of what our Author conceives I know
nothing) that as to a Law commanding men to pay do
the act of paying obedience to superiors, unless it
declares who those superiors are, it is a law that

NOTE

procuring authority from the King to exercise them
remains, tho' there is no use in for it: for nobody will
be at the pains of procuring, was it to be procured
which is is not, what every body an authority which knows to be waste
paper


Identifier: | JB/028/069/004
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

028

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

069

Info in main headings field

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

Image

004

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f12 / b13 / f14 / b15

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

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

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

9334

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