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197 INDIRECT LEGISLATION. v. overleaf.

Limits of Indirect Legislation try whether they can
be assigned.The ca Policy of this Law necessarily belongs not properly to this work the design of this performance work: but only the more or less advantageous way of compassing the design purpose of it.

The motives to for all sorts of Crimes are more & more curtailed by by or without a penalty of this magnitude
the great increase in the means of employment in the
great increase of manufactured riches — Hence At the same [in
great measure the] one reason, why there are fewer crimes
committed in the present times of opulence, than in past times
of indigence & barbarism. On the other hand they
are increased [by and opportunities are also increased] by
the increase of the temptation arising from by the superior gratification
of which those riches hold out the prospect by
their superior elaboration which heightens more & more the contrast between indigence & opulence — the opportunities are also
increased by their superior plenty.

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Indirect Legislation is employed to advantage on one or
another or all 3 of these accounts — 1st the conquering over
Evil at a less expense of Punishment than could be done
in the direct way — 2d the extirpating it more effectually
by attacking it in it's cause higher up in the spreading System of causes & effects - As Blood would be sooner discharged through a vein nearer than further from the Heart: — 3.dly The attacking of a
practise which tho' an evil, men of power may have
an Interest to support: or ex converso establishing one, which, tho' really
a benefit, they have an Interest to overthrow.

This latter purpose becomes every day less & less proper
to recur as the bulk of the people become more & more
enlightened, & more & more watchful over the public
good.

It was employed in barbarous ages with advantage & effect
by Hr 7th in encouraging the disposition alienation of property inter
vivos, in his Statute Against Retainers & & by his Son in permitting it to be disposed of
after death by Testament.

It's good effect in those times forms an argument for
it's being now employed — It's good effect was thus far
casual, as being beside the intention of the contrary

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Identifier: | JB/096/255/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	255	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ c2 f197
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[motif] l v g]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31259
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