JB/087/192/001

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Indirect Legislation

Frankpledge

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The utility of this institution is founded upon one
or other of two suppositions: that the persons [thus
made vicariously responsible] thus charged were parties
to the criminal design: or that not being parties
to it, but having it finding it subsequently in their power to ob prevent it
or to stop it or to bring the parties concerned in it apprehend the parties, or to give furnish information
against them to justice, they failed to do so. In the dark ages
of our history, when government was unsettled,
, when a neighbourhood
was a family, & a manor
a kingdom
the power of the moral sanction
weak or ill directed, when the boundaries between
robbery, rebellion and hostility were scarce discernible,
in short when in the days when it was
invented, this expedient [, violent as it is] might
have had its use. The supposition of negligence
complicity, at least either active or passive, was frequently
not improbable.

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In different parts of the world [the same
exigencies dictate the same expedients:] the same
diseases the same remedies cure. What Alfred is said
to have established among his Saxons, the Emperor
Akhbar is said to have established among the his inhabitants
of Hindostan: although no etymologist has
[fetched] sent for either of these people nations to generate the fetched other.

Identifier: | JB/087/192/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2, 1
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	192	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles
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	27717
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