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1821 April 14
First lines Means of accomplishment
1. Subsistence
2. Abundance
Nature and mutual relation of the several branches of the Law.
Principal means for the accomplishment of their several purposes.
Civil Law, distributive Law.
1. Distribution applied to benefits
I. Benefits their distribution — most beneficial mode of distributing
them.
1. Subsistence.
Original & all comprehensive — derivative and incidental — and
derivative. means of subsistence. By these words may be designated the two branches of a division
which it is necessary in the first place to bring to view.
The original fund of each man's subsistence is each man's labour.
The production of it is the work of nature without law & antecedently to
Law. What it looks for at the hand of Law, is security: security against
calamity, security against hostility: security against hostility from foreigners,
from fellow subjects from rulers.
II. Incidental & derivative means of subsistence. Then need of these
arises out of the deficiencies that are liable to have place in the produce of each man's
labour, considered as a fund for each man's subsistence.
Certain and casual — by the two distinctions thus designated it
may be comprehended in the first place all the varieties of which
the cause of this deficiency are susceptible.
Certain is the nature of those produced by time of life: by the
time antecedent to the capacity for labour & by the time subsequent
to it: by immaturity & by caducity.
At The time of immaturity endures for years: the time of caducity
may evidence for years, or may terminate in the same moment
in which it commenced. casual causes of deficiency of subsistence
Want of capacity for labour — want of employment for
labour — under one or other of these heads may be comprehended
all the casual causes of deficiency in regard to subsistence.
Casual want of capacity for labour is indisposition — relative
indisposition. Indisposition may be of body or of mind: The degree
of indisposition in question is designated marked by the effect.
If
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