JB/030/100/001

Click Here To Edit

1828 Aug. 15
Blackstone

Thus then, at the first step we come to rights: but
not a step further can be taken without coming to treading on obligations,
and an no obligation, we have seen as we shall see, can exist without, nor
otherwise than by punishment. But by the idea of punishment
we are led immediately to that of offences: for
appear no act wheresoever punishment
is attached to any sort of act, that act is thereby constituted
an offence. Thus in order if if it be our wish to know what are our rights
we are obliged to know under the necessity of knowing what are our obligations; of to know
our obligations, of knowing to what acts are constituted
punishments are stand attached, of to know to what acts punishment
stands attached, of knowing.

For rendering intelligible explaining at the same time the
distinction and the connection between those two so opposite
founts of law – the sweet and the bitter, and at
the same time showing how it is that to the best advantage
they are capable of being, and at the same time, in
good measure actually are separated from one another the one from the other
and as it were kept in different storehouses, we
must begin with noting bringing back to view the distinctions between the two
sorts of commands which for the effectual establishment of
one and the same right, are and must be addressed to
so many different sets of persons: the one to individuals
the other to Judges: the one to individuals, without his consent meddle not with
any man's coat, add in the words of the ten sacred commandments
nor with his horse, nor his ass, nor with anything that is
his: the other to Judges, of any and as often as any man
meddles with any thing as above that is another man's,
punish him in some way or other, and as far as
circumstances allow in some way in which the result
of the punishment may afford a fruit capable of being given
transferred to the party so wronged in such sort as so hake him amend.

Identifier: | JB/030/100/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-08-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9607
Box Contents