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10 Mar 1803
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considerable degree the trouble of thinking – it gave dignity to their
occupation, erected it into a science, formed it into
a monopoly, and excluded the suitor from the faculty of
defending his own rights. Even to the suitors themselves,
howsoever their interests may seem to have been sacrificed
by it – it was beneficial upon the whole. A degree
of stability was thus given – a degree beyond what could
have been given by any other means – to proprietary and
other rights, to those rights on the apparent permanancy of which
the opinion of security in its branches all its branches depends.
Above all things a considerable degree of protection, the
best that in those days could have been afforded was thus
afforded to the subject against the rapacity and tyranny
of a barbarian monarch, against whose enterprizes
the short lived and precarious authority of an equally
barbarian and short-sighted parliament – afforded could
not have afforded an thing better than a but an inadequate proportionably long inadequate resource.(a) (a) Wish for a task Theme to
work a philosophical history
of the law, which now will
hardly be qualified to give
all they are ripe for the
extirpation of it by the conversion
of it into Statute.

Of this digression for such though not a long one
it can not but be confessed to be – is to suffer more
the use I mean as applied to the present purpose – is
neither more nor less than to shew to any one who is
acquainted with the state of writing and reasoning
of those times – that from the mere circumstance of its
appearing in a latin garb no tolerably conclusive inference
can be drawn either with regard to the or
the universality of the rule. The word prodere to betray
may to judge by the complexion of it affords some indication to the
contrary. To betray – to be a traytor is one of those words –
for the misfortune of mankind so numerous in language – which
rhetoricians

Proditio is in the
English Law the technical
term for traitorship:
for he species of delinquency
to which the highest degree
of punishment stands annexed.

Identifier: | JB/047/415/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1813-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	415	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15283
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