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1821 April 15 S.3. Security
Third on the list of the benefits which the Civil branch
of the Law is occupied in distributing issecurity.
Security considered as applied to individuals has for its objects, four distinguishable possessions:
person, reputation, property, and condition in life.
Security has for its adversaries, against whose enterprises
is to be afforded, three classes of persons differently situated
and denominated viz. foreign adversaries considered as such, —
foreigners considered in so far as they are, or are liable to become
adversaries; fellow citizens or fellow subjects, considered
in that same light; rulers viz. of the country in question
considered in that same light.
Of As to Acts against which, security is to be afforded
& by which in so far as they are performed committed, security or
broken in upon & lessened, they are in themselves & their immediate
effects are the same, by which soever of the three species of
adversaries they are exercised. Taken however in the aggregate,
they are wont to be designated by a different denomination
according to the situation of the class, to which the
person or persons by whom they are exercised, is considered
as belonging: if to that of foreign adversaries, they are denominated acts of hostility:
if, to that of domestic adversaries, considered in the character
of subjects, acts of delinquency; if to that of domestic
adversaries, considered in the character of rulers, acts of
oppression, or if the oppression be considered as to a certain
degree flagrant, acts of tyrannt: if
The more in which operation
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