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To be omitted have one one, or ten persons, or the whole Community
in view: whether the operation of
that will be confined to a day, a, month, a
Year, or be extended to any number of Years
it is still a rule of civil conduct, & therefore a Law: /See Addenda a/ and that therefore our Author
should have added some Epithet to the
word rule yet I shall not cavil with him on
This after explanation of the . But But when he tells us, "that a particular act of

Farther,every though the benefit of operation benefit granted for a Law may, be confined to a single appear to the in by
person, yet it's directions extend to all, it's penalties may be
affect all. The Law which gives the field to Titius, directs every
member of the community to abstain from our Author the field; and threatens
every member with pains & penalties who shall interrupt Titius
in the enjoyment of it. The Law Act which attain to Titius, directs every
Member not to or his harbor him. —
I call this last operation a Law in conformity our Author: — who says

Our Author goes on:
But when he tells us, "that a particular act of

But says our Author, a particular act of
"the legislature to confiscate the goods of Titius
"and to attaint him of high treason does not
"enter into the idea of a municipal law;"
I think so too: — But I question upon a cry for a very different reason from that assigned
by our Author. — His reason is; "Because
and that because the operation of this act, is
"spent upon Titius only, This is not Q. is this true? Were a man to receive, harbor & abet this same Titius after he was attainted, would the Operation of the act be so thoroughly spent on the person of Titius as not to have reserved a stroke or two for his friends? and has no relation to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	029	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	section vi / our author's account of municipal law
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c74 / c75
Penner	168	Watermarks	gr
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31033
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