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1826. April May 5
Penal from Constitutional Code
Ch. IX. Ministers collectively
§. 6. Statistic function

Ratiocinative

Art or 26 By men of the commonest class
in England more especially, incalculable is the number of millions
of pounds lost every year by means of false information circulated
b partly through negligence partly through prædatory of malitious
design intention but most of all through prædatory: bred inconsiderably
together is the aggregate amount of those pecuniary wrongs
complaint of which finds its way into the aggregate number of
judicatories in comparison of those which for want of
adequate judicial means of information remain uncomplained
of and unredressed, and the dishonest
authors triumphing in impunity and success,
unpunished not only by adequate legal punishment at the hands
of the judicial authority, but also of moral punishment
at the hands of the Public Opinion Tribunal. If the the
case of loss by wrong to th parties on one side, the addition
to the pleasure and well being of the wrongees were equal to the
pain and substraction from well being on the part of the
wrongees there would be no sufficient reason would thus for the
application of the repressive power of government. But as
in cases to which that power is wont to be applied so in those
cases to which as yet it has not been wont to be applied
the aggregate sustained suffering of the losers is without dispute to a vast
though unmeasurable amount greater than the aggregate
enjoyment reaped by the gainers. If then in the one case class of case
the application of the power of the Legislator and the Judge is
justifiable and needful much more so is it in the class of
cases in which as yet, by reason of the imperfect state of the
judicial Establishment and the Procedure Code scarce any application
of them as yet has been made of the same tutelary powers.

Identifier: | JB/067/343/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1826-05-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 26
Box	067	Main Headings	constitutional code; penal code
Folio number	343	Info in main headings field	penal from constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	ratiocinative
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5 / c4 / d11 / e11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	22176
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