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INTRODUCTION. Contents.
1 1
Encyclopedical Sketch. Station of Jurisprudence
in the Map of Science.
2 2
Jurisprudence Speculative and Practical
3 3
Distinction between Law Jurisprudence, Morality and
Religion
4 5
End of Law under it's most general description the maximum of Happiness in
Society
5 16
Dimensions of Happiness and Unhappiness.
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Principle of Utility vindicated
Principle of Utility 7 the standard of propriety merit in a Law.
Division of Law 8 from its origin 15 reprobated into Devon
Natural Law of Nations, & Municipal Law,
reprobated.
9 16 17
Law — it's different senses collected. {To trace error to their source is to refute them}
10
Law Distribution is only a Function of Law — Each of the others is both a Function & an end. exerted in 3 ways according to — It's 3fold operation upon the instruments
of enjoyment and causes of unhappiness.
divided into Distributive + + The function of Distribution's subservient to the 2 others. Distributive of Powers over Persons things or Powers over persons in a private account. 3d. Powers over persons on a public account. 2 Conservatory [ob
intra & at extra] — at extra. or Constitutional. and Augmentative
or accumulatory.
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Parts of a Law. Precept Direction part & Sanction —
Will of the Law — Primary and Secondary
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Sanction in specie twofold i themuneratory &
Afflictive — Pleasurable and Painful.
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Sanction threefold by the Law
It's adventitious Foreign supplements + + or extraneous Co-adjutaments. or impediments. to. it Sanction political
Moral, Religious.
14 16
Rule of conduct in every case is but one. the
Balance of Interest can be but on one side at a time.
15
Laws Penal Law distinguished from others.
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conflict [Stress sown] between the 3 Sanctions. Advantages & disadvantages of the Moral Sanction
17 13
Advantages & Disadvantages of the Religious
Sanction
18 14
Advantages & disadvantages of the Political Sanction.
19 19
Directiones nudae .............................
20 20
Directiones — Exhortations.
21
How to entitle Division of Laws according to the mode of their
Establishment: into Statute & Common Law.
22
What it is that constitutes a Law in Common
Law.
23
8 Cases which a Law may be in in respect point
of it's merit.
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24 21
Laws Substantive and Adjective.
25 9*
Form of the directory part of a Law - simple
or qualified — clause active / and
energetic / and qualifying or restrictive.
26
Utility 2fold — 1 Original and 2. derived
from expectation. The term Justice — the substitute for
dependent on the term utility in it's latter sense.
27
Expectation original or aboriginous and
arising from Law. Private interest or a confused sense of general interest produced the 1st act: Imitation by adding other like acts formed a habit: & from the habit formed, arises an expectation, without which had no reference to the interest private or general which was the first [radical] germ of it.
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Crimes, Offences, Immoralities, Vices Sins, expressions
relative to the respective Sanctions.
29 7
Principle of Utility — Prejudices against —
30 *7
Principle of Utility — Abuses of.
31
Laws — mandatory, prohibitive , praemiary,
permissive.
32 18
Theology irrelevant to Independance of Jurisprudence on Theology.
33.
Difference between a Law and a Bye-Law
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34.
Laws operative on Laws — acts viz: of the people at Laws repealing
large = Laws enacting
35
Laws operative on Laws = Laws confir viz: with
respect 1st to Abstract naked Misc. existence — or 2d
to duration: or third 3dly to substance.
36.
Abuses debilitative of the Religious Sanction. + + v. Spectator No 459.
37.
Degree and species of certainty attainable
in Jurisprudential speculations — compared
with that which belongs to Mathematics.
38
Indirect Legislation
39.
Inseparability of Utility and Truth — confessed
by Warburton
40
40. v. BR. 1. Utility sooner found out by itself than
Truth by Texts. + +we are sure to find them in company: the question is therefore which of them we shall find it easiest to meet with? which of them is it leaves the plainest traces.
41
Qualification (of the qualifying clauses in a Law)
1st Expositions as Definitions . 2
Limitative & that 1st Of Place. 2d of Time. 3dly of Subject-matter.
4th of Persons [ad quos] concerned.
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