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To in obligation to every any other ": that is in the
1st place to the Municipal Law which forms
all there is of it that amounts to anything.
in the next place to the Divine Law, which
is the same with it. to the first, because it
is "co-coal with mankind": that is exisitng either at
some part of the same time that the that the men <add>have or will or do exist whom</add> with the men it is to govern :
or at every part of the time that man ever
existd or will exist or have existed: consequently at the
first moment they began to exist, before any such thing as Municipal
Law was made. To the other because "it is dictated
by God himself" : this not being the case it seems at present with
the Divine Law.

["It is binding over all the globe, in all countries" + + p.41.
where there is no such thing as Municipal Law, as
well as 'where there is one : "and at all times" : ++ p.41.
before then was any Municipal Law, where there
is any, as well as since. "No human" [Municipal] "Laws are of any validity, if contrary to
this : and such of them as are valid" [I have c would be
stranger hankering to know but tell us just for curiosity's sake
what these are!] "derive all their force, and all
"their authority, or immediately, from
"this original." ++ p. 41.

[This all-embracing Law, "dictated by God himself"
who giveth wisdom to the simple, and "inevitably conformed to", is a Law, that, are very easily perceived, remains to be "discover'd". + + ip 40. 41 To discover it,
is a thing that's "necessary :" |||| p. 41. however there is a



Identifier: | JB/096/055/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

096

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

055

Info in main headings field

sect. ii law of nature

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / / / d8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

31059

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