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6 Feby 1809 Peines

5. It tends were it possible rather to aggravate the mischief
than mitigate it: to render confusion more confused,
corruption more corrupt, uncertainty more uncertain. In

In itself every applicati individual act by which
application is made of the corrupt principle the principle
nullification is mischievous: it is mischievous
upon that individual scale. But, supposing a
general rule long established and uniformly observed, by
which in a describable case clearly marked out
by it (if under the unwritten branch of the law this be not too much to suppose course for supportive) the application
were of this principle is prescribed, the violation
of such a rule, howsoever mischievous the rule may be,
is itself mischievous, and mischievous upon an enlarged
scale: for, by disappointing in that instance the expectations of the initiated,
it tends toleads them to expect to find their expectations
in respect of the all other parts of the field of law disappointed [+] ( I'm only part of the people to whom conceptions any thing that is done in the systembranch of procedurejudicial can ever by direct communication make its way)
likewise and by the same handor other hand. But with this sermon
of the pious Lord Hales in his mouth, and the authority of the
learned and great Lord Hales at his back - not to speak
of the radicalnotorious absurdity and profligacy any such minor
of any such weak and unpopular arguments as the inherent
absurdity and profligacy of the principle - any Judge
who to a sonorousto whom it may happen and laudable voice and a confident
and imposing manner addsto add a commandand show of language may
push aside, and with applause, the the rule of <add>any usual</add> disobedience nullification rule
whatever it beand in pr absurdity. What? would you have God dishonoured?
So he would be - ask Lord Hales also - - not to speak of "villainy encouraged and
government shamed - if Robbery were more as gross a robbery were to "remain unpunished" which
it would be if in this instance adherence were to be continued to the rule.

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Date_1	1809-02-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	15
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	255	Info in main headings field	peines
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e54
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	pr1	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	35246
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