JB/100/018/001

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Such is the excellence of the English law, say
its panegyrists, that there is no right but has
its remedy. + + Comm. This is true: and [when you are
put] to prove it, and when there is no remedy
deny the right. That done, there is no one specific [individual]
thing in England, land excepted, that the
owner has a right to. If an usurper a man
sees any thing of another that he likes, takes gets it
or keeps it, and stands trial, the worst that
can happen is to pay the price which a jury
may chance to put upon it. The price fixed
he takes his choice: if the price suits him, he
takes the thing; if not he parts with it. Upon these terms the property of every man is the
prey of every other. The quest of the people under
such laws depends partly upon habit partly
upon prejudice, but chiefly upon ignorance. The
antiquary little thinks that his ewer may
be taken from him for the price of the copper, the
connoisseur that his Raphael may be carried off
upon paying for it by the yard, the lover that
the miniature of his absent mistress may be
torn by a rival from his bosom at the price a broker would
give for it or sell it for. Change the scene now
to

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	influence of time and place
Folio number	018	Info in main headings field	place and time
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	32034
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