JB/031/213/001

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1828 Nov. 17
Blackstone

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Astrea. either call me Universal Jurisprudence.
others the Goddess of Justice.

Astrea. Felicia! Begin and inform the company our disciples
what in this country law ought to be.

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Every law is either
a command or an
assemblage of commands.

Felicia. Madam, I obey. You have This command of yours
Felicia. Madam! You have commanded. I am
obliging. Y This command of yours is a law to l me.

Astrea. Daughter you have answered well. Every
law is either a command or an assemblage of commands
or an assemblage a quantity of that number of which laws are made.
It shall will be my business and my end.

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Law a system of
means directed to
and end

Meantime this much is clear that Law taken in
its totality, the whole assemblage of that matter of which
laws are composed is a system of means directed to an
end as was the law you have just heard me delivering
to Felicia: it had your instruction for its end.

Proceed then Felicia and inform the company what is
the proper end of what assemblage of matt matter of the
law

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Sole proper end
greatest happiness

Felicia! Beloved Daughter 'hear me' The end proper and
sole end of all law is the greatest happiness of that body
of sensitive beings for whose sake it is made. This is the
universally applying — it the all comprehensive end.

Identifier: | JB/031/213/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-11-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	213	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9899
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