JB/036/157/002

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1822 Feb. 21
Codification Offer

By the votaries of that spurious and barbarous
substitute to law which ought never to be mentioned without
reproach, nor can ever be mentioned with reproach
adequate to its mischievousness – institutions have been
set on foot for everlasting augmentation of it, on pretence
of everlasting elucidation, institution rendering darkness
thicker and thicker, under the notion of augmenting
light. To institutions of this sort, the appellation of a School
of Jurisprudence may without improbability be, and
probably has been applied. But how opposite in their
nature are any such Schools of Jurisprudence, and the
here proposed School of Legislation! In that case, money
expended, and the result a nuisance a finite added to an already infinite nuisance: in this case, no
money expended, and the result pure good. In that case
explanations are heaped upon explanations – explanations
of that which, though not being in existence – not having
any determinate words belonging to it – is essentially and
for ever incapable of being explained. In that case, the object
of each founder and of each lecturer, is – that with a view
to judicial decision, his new matter thus poured in,
should, by as many more as possible, be read and studied
in addition to the old: as if the greater the mass, the
easier it would be for the citizen to take it into his memory,
and hold it there for use. How different is the case
with the expected produce of the proposed legislation School!
Having no pretence to be taken for law – having no pretence
to be a taken for a guide to judicial decision – no
memory is endeavoured to be loaded with it: to him who
feels disposed to apply his mind to the consideration
of new matter destined for the field field of law – to him
and him alone is it addressed.

Identifier: | JB/036/157/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 3 - or 5
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	157	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale?
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a2 / c2 / d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11081
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