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2 National Interest

will be agreeable to one man and disagreeable to another,
the same office which appears to contain impart
nothing but burthen or more burthen than profit to one man may appear to
impart nothing but profit or more profit than
burthen to another. The same office accordingly which is
an object of ambition to one man, may be an object of aversion
to another.

Now the insofar as an office imparts
profit, it becomes an article object of property, and
the usurping of it is a offence; an
offence against the individual whose property
it is: in so far as it imparts duty which
may or may not be regarded as a burthen, it
is an article object of trust, and to usurp it may
if it is an offence against the public.
Again with regard to refusal —

In what case it may be a private offence as well as a public one In as far as Whenever the refusal of an office, is
follow attended with the effect of throwing it
upon another to whom the duty of it is a
burthen it is may be a private offence, an offence
against the particular individual or individuals
on whom, in consequence of such refusal, the burthen of it is thrown.




Identifier: | JB/072/082/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

072

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

082

Info in main headings field

refusal of trusts

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23699

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