JB/037/065/001

Click Here To Edit

1821. May 5th. First Lines Divisions

In so far as burthens are distributed attributed
and imposed, it is or ought to be to no other purpose than
that of conferring the correspondent benefits. In so far as
the individuals on whom the benefits are intended to be conferred
are individuals considered separately and in their
private capacity, the portion of law by which the benefit is distributed,
attributed and conferred will naturally present itself to
view as occupied in the distribution, of b attribution and
conferring of benefits. This branch of law, in so far as it is
susceptible of a separate consideration, may be distinguished
by the manner of the beneficially distributive branch
of distributive law; in so far as the individuals on whom
the benefits are intended to be conferred are the whole
number of the individuals of which the community in
question is composed, or some large and extensively comprehended
portion of that same whole number — so large as
that the individual comprehended in it are not individually
assignable, the portion of law by which the benefit is
distributed, attributed and conferred will naturally and almost
unavoidably present itself as occupied in the distribution
attribution and interposition of burthens. Thus it is, for example
in the case of those laws which are occupied in the
imposition of taxes, or other forced contributions: with whatever
degree of subserviency to the greatest happiness of the
greatest number those taxes are imposed, and the produce
of them employed, that is to say, the quantity of matter of applicable to
the immediate purpose of conferring benefit to individuals, applied to
the ultimate purpose of conferring benefit on the community,
as above, taken at large. This branch of law, in so far as
it is susceptible of a separate consideration, may be distinguished
by the name of the onerously or burthensomely or

Identifier: | JB/037/065/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1821-05-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11280
Box Contents