JB/047/129/001

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20 Feby 1803
Evidence

In so far as the event thus predicted by the law is of
a nature favourable to this or that individual interested
in the fulfilment of such prediction, an expectation
of the pleasurable kind is raised in his breast; and which this
expectation, if the prediction fails at being fulfilled, is followed
and put an end to by disappointment: an event to
which a particular kind of pain is in such case inseparably annexed:
– a pain of disappointment.

The perfection of a system of procedure consists
in the degree of regularity and uniformity and compleatness
and certainty, and constancy, with which the predictions delivered conveyed by the system of substantive law are accomplished:
– with which the expectations raised by the system
of substantive law are fulfilled. So far as the expectations
produced by the system of substantive law are fulfilled,
so far the object of it – the only proper object of it at least –
is accomplished: so far as they fail of being fulfilled,
so far that object is missed – so far they the law fails of answering
the producing answering the purpose of its institution – of producing
that only effect by wh good, but for which
the institution of that as of every law of the coercive kind
is not a benefit but a mischief – a grievance.

Identifier: | JB/047/129/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1803-02-20	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	129	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"cancel, or engraft into introd. ch. 2 relation to procedure" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	14997
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