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INDIRECT LEGISLATION. Definition.

Instances of my invention 1 Against every thing that concerns escapes & rescues whether by criminals strangers or Officers — Penalty for Relations & indeed Friends assisting in escapes, banishment to the Colonies without Slavery. Stigmatization. 2 Against Fornication Prostitution Law imposing giving a monopoly of certain businesses to Women. The motives here are Idleness & comparative Poverty. 3 Against Accidents from Drovers Penalty upon the Masters sed Qu. & this is in some degree Penal. Instances of it in the Stat. of Frauds & Perjuries — against
Perjuries — In the Marriage Act + + 4 Against this already subsists, the necessity of the penal clauses arises merely from the want of notoriety of the avoidance Clandestine Marriages — by simply making them void — this to be made notorious by binding it up with the Matrimonial Service in the common Prayer-book sticking it up in some place certain in the Church & including it in the proposed Moral Catechism. — A conditional restrictive clause should be inserted in the very body of the Form — making the age, or consent of Parents if within age the condition of the state's being conferred: itself which by making certain
Marriages void cutt off the necessity of the severe acts
against stealing infant Heiresses.

Definition Idea of Indirect Legislation

Indirect Legislation is where an obnoxious act [practise] is
endevored attempted to be suppressed, not by opposing motives planting artificial motives stronger artificial to the
abstaining from it stronger in direct opposition the natural ones to for the doing it
but by such a disposition of things as shall either cut off
these latter motives or the power: thus instead of opposing the act itself taking away the it's cause. of the
act instead of opposing the act itself

The Motives to Marriage are the degree of disrepute attending
concubinage & the disadvantages affecting the Issue of

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such a connection.

The direct way of suppressing this in the instances in
which it is meant to be suppressed is by creating
motives to the necessary persons i:e: Clergymen from abstaining from
contributing to it superior to any which they could have
for doing so.

[The indirect way is by cutting off altogether the motives for doing]
The motives which they could have for doing it, are the fees
ordinary or extraordinary which they might have from the parties for the
celebration —

The artificial created motives to their abstaining from it, is
[by an Act of Parliament], the punishment of transportation
for .... years.

A Law operates in the way of Indirect Legislation; when
the it's secondary will respects not the same object as the
primary one does.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	254	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation definition
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / f196
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[motif] l v g]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31258
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