JB/044/032/001

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1823. June 9
U.S.

§. False securities for intellectual aptitude – disquiet peculiar Exclusions
1. – for immaturity of age

If on the ground of exclusion age must have place,
better for over maturity than for immaturity: better the
aged than the young.

The young have no sinister interest pursued at the expence of the
aged: the
The aged have a sinister interest pursued at the expence
of the young.

Men the older they grow the shadier and more unbending
the commonly are in the pursuit of self-regarding interest
at the expence of the all-embracing social interest.

They have children, and acquire other family connections:
the a narrow social interest is thence pursued at the expence
of the all-embracing social interest.

Among the opulent, the advanced in years, who have
or have not children, or quasi-children are more intent
upon keeping up the importance of the family by sacrificing
he pecuniary means of the all younger children of both sexes to an eldest male.

So, by obstructing marriages of inclination, when not advantageous
in respect of property.

It is was perhaps it was by the sinister interest rather
than by any consideration of social and all-embracing prudence
that the exclusion was suggested.

It was by this ex self regarding and narrow social interest
it was that the ar gave birth to the arrangements in the English Marriage
Act of 1822 by which the marriages of minors without
consent of parents and guardians were made voidable.

Identifier: | JB/044/032/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 44.
Date_1	1823-06-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	044	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	032	Info in main headings field	constitut. code us
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d7 / e3 / f19
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	13817
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