JB/087/051/001

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Indirect Legislation

Non-seducing

Self-regarding offences against persons.

Self-mortification &c

When a station importing profit emolument is
conferred upon a man, the continuance of
which profit is made to depend upon certain the terms
of his observing such or such a mode of conduct, in such case by
becomi his acceptance of such a station he
becomes subject to a kind of law obliging him
to the observance of that mode of conduct, under
a penalty to the amount of such con
emolument. If the mode of conduct be such
as proves eventually inconvenient in the event proves unprofitably to himself, to
wit by debarring him from pleasure which nobody neither
he nor any body else is the better for his being debarred from ,
or subjecting him to pain which neither he nor
any body else is the better for his undergoing,
the institution by which such station is created established
has the effect of a law upon grounded in a principle diametrically
opposite to that principle of utility,
the principle of asceticism. See Princ. of Legisl.
Introd. Ch. 2 [Principles
adverse]
The sanction
thus imposed upon him may either stand
alone or it may be coupled with others of a
more coercive nature. The former is the case
with

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	051	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	self-regarding offences against persons
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27576
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