JB/106/091/001

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1 March 1807

As to the advantage benefit of uniformity, of decision, it
recommends itself by a natural title to the imagination, the
advantage of it attended to it is not of a nature of provoke
dispute.

But though real, it is not intrinsic, for its utility
depends on ulterior considerations.

In regard to the rule of action the advantage utility of uniformity depends upon the utility of certainty.

On the certainty of the rule of action. On the basis endowment of
certainty on the part of the law stands rests that of security on
the part of the people in the character of Suitors.

Suppose that by a the habitual course of decision becomes habitual
to one of three courts the property of a demand is given
the whole of it to the older of two sons, by that of another
Court, the whole to the younger, and by that of the third, divided
between them: no disposition by well being allowed: and no one
of the three Courts having any power of controul over either of the others.
Thus we see an ideal a state of confusion no less fatal to security than
the above supposed case of the prevalence of a principle.

Identifier: | JB/106/091/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	19-22
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34679
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