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1828 Feby. 20
Law Amendment CivilPropositions

To come to particulars. In the P To the Penal
branch belongs the catalogue of offences with their respective
definitions. To this list Of this number in a large proportion
the subject matter of the offence is property, or say the matter
of wealth: and the matter of wealth, though the principal,
is but one of several modifications of the matter of prosperity,
the others being power, reputation, rank, and in so far as
the beneficial character is preponderant over the burthensome,
the consequent matter condition in life – a complex subject matter of possession comprised
of those others simple cases which have jus the just mentioned
simple ones. Now with reference to all those subje in the
description given of all each of those several modifications of the
matter of prosperity, the word title is a necessary ingredient:
But of the import of this word no adequate
exposition conception can be given conveyed without a large quantity of matter
of the expositive cast: composed in great art of enumeration
of events to which the legislator gives the character
of collative and ablative events with reference to the several
subject matter of property and power, for example.

Thereupon comes the description of those several subject
matters, all of them reducible to the two general heads denominations
namely persons and things. To the head of persons, In so far as
persons are the subject matters of property – or say proprietary
rights and powers, it is in virtue of the services positive
and or negative which they are bound to render. To the list
of services, chiefly of the positive cast belong those due by
contract that is to say either by obligatory agreement, or by transfer or say
conveyance. Thus there we have as part and parcel of the
matters belonging to the civil branch of the law the whole
quantity of the matter belonging to the subject of voluntary
agreement and transfers, and placed by usage under the head of Contract and Conveyances.

Thus it is that
to a multitude of the
offences forming so many
titles in the Penal Code
belongs, as necessary
to the conveying an adequate
conception of the import of them, one
and the same portion of
matter belonging to and
proper for insertion in, the Civil Code.

Identifier: | JB/030/042/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-02-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 4 - or 5
Box	030	Main Headings
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	law amendment civil
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
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	9549
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