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1826 Aug. 25 or 18
Review of Humphreys Code

| 3 1o & 2o
§§. Agenda at length
§. J.B. Improvements
(3) (3 to the formula
Code of the Subject
1. Formula
2. Topics
3 Order of the subject
4.

2. Code of the Subject

To each instrument
attach inseparably a
Code of the Subject,
Contents, the whole
mass of the rule of
law bearing upon it:
either in termines or part
in termines part by the
remainder by reference
according to the quantity
of letter press.

For instrument
and appropriate Code
together a sheet or
even half sheet of the
size of the Article printed
in the like types would
more than suffice

We now come to speak of a more
important improvement which to those who
are acquainted with Mr Bentham's work
will not present the idea of novelty but for
which this great & practicable plan of Mr
Humphreys presents an obvious application.
It consists in attaching to each such species
of conveyance & that in such manner as not
to be capable of being separated from the matter
of the individual instrument what he calls the
Code of the Subject i.e. either in the very words or
by reference the whole text of such portion
of general law as bears upon it. Without Mr
Humphreys plan this most desirable & unprecedented
security wd have been physically impossible
Let but Mr Humphrey's plan be adopted nothing
can be more easy. One single sheet of paper
not larger with a quantity of letter press not
larger than half a newspaper will be sufficient to
contain the whole of Mr Humphreys proposed Code
extending as it does with little exception to all sorts of
conveyances of
which land is
the subject. With
This being brought
to view let any one
judge of the facility
with which any
Single one of those
conveyances with
the law relative to
it though it were the lengthiest of them all might be exhibited.

Identifier: | JB/078/094/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 78.
Date_1	1826-08-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	Not numbered
Box	078	Main Headings	Review of Humphreys
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field	Review of Humphreys's Code
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C3 / D3 / E3
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1824
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	25185
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