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Unwritten Law.

the King may do what ever he pleases: that it is not
wrong. It is not wrong, but lawful: and that [to
this effect] on this account because his office confers compliments in him exemption from all punishment not for himself only, but extends
that exemption to for all those all concerned with him.
The Phrase of itself, till explained in
one or other of these three ways, has we may
perceive, no meaning: and on that account was
the better suited to the purposes of those who
brought it into vogue. When thus explained
it forms we see, three perfectly distinct different and
even contrasted propositions: having a different
subject, or predicate or both.

We will now take the parts one of these propositions; the
part of them for example, trace it in its origin
and application, and in so doing justify and
explain the account we have given of the
sense attached to sort of thing meant by the word Maxim: of which
this in question was brought for as an example.

"The King himself is exempt from Punishment"
for thus I will take leave to alter the
proposition, now that the relation of it to the
maxim tho in the original words terms of it, has
been sufficiently made out, I suppose, by terms in words
applying directly to those terms.

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Folio number	128	Info in main headings field	unwritten law custom & maxim
Image	003	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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