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9 March 1807

3. Other examples are all manner denominations of contracts, all denominations
of offences: other terms of still more extensive
import such as thing, to cause, to contribute as applied
to delinquency in another place† † Dune I. 217 for example to delinquency, and co-delinquency,
in the case of some a result produced by punishable
transgression.

4. So again a very short but most significant groupe of
words which though terms of jurisprudence are at the same
time among the words in most common use: obligation, right,
power, liberty, privilege, exemption. These, as shown in
another place‡ ‡ Fragment on Government pp. though not being as any of them a species of any
thing, they are not any of them susceptible of what is definition
in the sense commonly annexed to that word term, nor
not the less so susceptible of exposition, nor do they the
less stand in need of it.

10. That though the operation indicated by the word
legislation may not improperly be understood to be spoken of as being the
subject of the appropriate a particular art and science: yet the
product of that operation, viz: law – a book of real law
when once composed should not be g neither ought to be nor need be of such
a nature as to require art of science for the comprehension
of it: for that when formed as it might be and ought
to be, on the part of each individual the measure of his understanding on the part in so far
as his mental faculties natural and acquired afford him the capacity of understanding it
will not be to be sought for any where out of itself.

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Identifier: | JB/106/121/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	24-27
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	121	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c16 / e12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34709
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