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Indirect Legislation

Satisfying

[Reading the laws of foreign nations is like
travelling: by using himself in the course of this the exercise a man
may learn to disentangle himself in some degree
from homespun prejudices]

A

Legitimating
marriages for
limited terms
According to the prevailing mode of thinking
the idea of virtue is associated with a this contract
of ind where in point of duration it is
indefinite, [that of vice] where [it is] definite
that of vice. How happens Whence came this? has it any & what foundation
f in utility? That it the cohabitation
of the sexes should be
moral or immoral
according to the duration
of the engagement contract
in virtue of which it
is performed is a
position which, abstractedly
taken, seems
singular enough.
A piece of land the law would
let suffers a man to engage for life or for a term of
years or if just which happens to be most convenient
to him. As a servant were a man
disposed to engage himself for life, the law would
hardly permitt give it's sanction what it would deem so improvident
a bargain. A companion of the
other sex it will not suffer a person to engage
with under any other terms than for any lesser term than for life:
other contracts it suffers to the rescinded parties
to rescind, whenever they judge it to be for their
mutual convenience so to do. In this contract
it looks upon admitts not of any such consideration as that of mutual convenience as a consideration
not to be consulted: A contract for board
may

Identifier: | JB/087/073/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27598
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