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Click Here To Edit LAWS SUBST.X ADJECTIVE CH.... OFFENCES PRINCIPAL & ACCESSORY.
the multitudinous character under which they appear
at present, is brought on them by endless & unnecessary repetitions
— I shall subjoin a Praxis &c
Another use of the Distinction
between Substantive & Adjective
However difficult it may be to this
with regard to of the substantive
Adjective are none of them
(plenty)
what is called Laws of Nature
exemplified in
they are inventions of the
artificial construction of Political
Society
of the helobative, manymost & may be universally
intelligible in their description
— because they prohibit
such acts as areit was in men's
nature to do it & talk of doing
before these were Laws.
live In this Law they are Natural
Adjective need not always because
They cannot always: be understood they
regard species of acts invented
be presecribed — invented
& presecribed
predominate: And this is observed in the
current Methods of Classification — For Instance
the crime just mentioned is arranged in them
under some such Title as that of Offences against
the State, answering to our third Class; and wi
a Name viz: "Treason" point at the Mischief
to which it leads as accessary instead of that of
"Homicide" which points to what it is productive
of as principal.
It is with reluctance I
To return to accessories which are such
to single principals.
presented to be done by —
particular set of mans art if
by most men, get so as they
come not in under contemplation
but rarely, often most in a
man's life.
Another Distinction that
may be noticed concerning them is one which
I am almost loth to mention from the hard
Names to which I am obliged to recur in order
to shadow out some imperfect Denomination
for the two Branches of it — We may observe
amongst the Accessories already instanced that
whereas a few are expressed in a simple and
unqualified Form of words as Killing, injuring
attempting to Kill [under the principal Offence of
The five aspects of Religion
& maxims of morality, if
reduced to the regular form of
Laws, furnished but within a Specific function
annexed to them, would be Laws
of the Substantive kind.
If a state of
which There somewhat in what the penaltypresentment annexed take place upon followed th wh if the foreign
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