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1828 Aug. 2.
Blackstone

Now then – why is it, that the law makes or should make, this coat of yours your
coat? Why not permitt or suffer me or any body else that can
contrive to lay hold of it, to take it. Why?⊞ ⊞ (says Law as it ought to be), but for
this reason: to prevent disappoint on your part, disappointment,
and the uneasiness – the pain of mind, that which
in case of disappointment, according to the importance
which the thing in question has in his eyes, every man
by whom a thing which in his eyes is a good thing, has
more or less experience of, you expecting to continue to wear
that coat of yours as long as you those would experience disappointment,
if without your
consent you were to
cease, by mere accident
to have it in your power
to wear it. I, not
having any such expectation,
experienced
no uneasiness at the
thought of my not
having it: and so it
is with every body
else, unless perchance
on the part of this or
that man whose coat
being all in rage
and he unable to get
another, might choose
to cast a longing eye
on yours as he on his
meeting you in the street.
But, of this case, further on by and bye.

So The says law as it ought to be, approving giving in principle
that which which in this its hearty and unrefusable approbation
to that which, on this occasion, law as it is, does or
at least endeavours, or pretends to do in practice. To save
words and bring to view on each occasion a rule which
for the application of which there has is so constantly in
demand, it employs the word principle, speaks of
the disappointment-preventing principle, and speaks of your
coat as being kept upon your back by the influence of the
disappointment principle.

On every occasion on which this principle, behold in it it is
the genuine and immediate offspring of the greatest happiness principle.

But is it for your coat only that is thus made
yours by you are thus indebted to the influence of the disappointment principle?
On the contrary, not less so are you for any thing, which
you take pleasure in calling yours.

But is every body to have at all times whatever
he expects to have? What if⊞ ⊞ so it happens that I
and a multitude of other
persons expect of
really and honestly expect
to have your coat,
are each of us as well
as you to have it to himself. I or more two persons or any greater number
expect each of them to have the same thing? what if each of them
calls it his? a natural enough question surely: and this
is what brings in the matter of consideration of special right and title.
Again. If your Nobody supposed but yourself ever expecting, without
your consent to have this coat of yours, is the law to stand pledged
at all events to cause this coat of yours to continue yours, –

Identifier: | JB/030/077/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-08-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	077	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9584
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