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1827 Aug. 25
Penal CodeCh. III Division of Offences
§. Definitions & Distinctions

Under then
"according to".

Ch. III
§. 1. Offences – general divisions Definitions and Divisions Definitions

Under+ According to the greatest happiness principle, an every act
by which more pain in the community in question more
pain or more pain than pleasure is produced, futurity all succeeding future effects taken into account
than pleasure is a misdeed.

An act which under whatsoever notion
to wit that of its being a misdeed, or any other is taken
by or by appointment of the Sovereign authority in the political community in question
made taken for the subject of prohibition, is thereby constituted
an offence.

According to the greatest happiness no act by which
in the community in question more pain than pleasure,
all succeeding consequences future effects taken into consideration is not produced, is
not produced is a misdeed.

To be productive of the effect professed to be intended
a prohibition, must in the event of its not being conformed complied
to with, be appointed to be followed with suffering pain
in some shape or other at the charge of the person
in whose instance such want of conformity has place.

No act can have place without a motive
a motive is the prospect of all eventual pain or of eventual
pleasure: by a pleasure suggesting motive no adequate security
for compliance forbearance from misdeeds in general
can be afforded applied: its operation is not so certain; and
pleasure requiring for its production some one or more of a raft
of instruments the number of which is confined within comparatively
narrow limits, and not capable of being encreased as
pleasure can not be employed as a motive to a correspondently
limited extent: whereas the number of misdeeds
the prevention of which
is required by the greatest
happiness principle,
is altogether infinite.

Identifier: | JB/068/065/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1827-08-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	068	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles	ch. iii definitions and divisions
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22260
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