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1782 June 3
J.B. to Ld Ashburton

Ch. 39. Of Indirect or preventive Legislation: or of
the several ways of preventing misdeeds otherwise
than by (force of) punishment directly immediately applied to
the very act which is obnoxious. Indirect Legislation
may be levelled 1. against delinquency: 2.
against misrule.

Ch. 40. Influence of time and place on the expediency
of a law. Some laws parts of a compleat
perfect body of law will would be equally adapted to all
times and places; others not.

The place being thus enlarged, so as to take
in the whole body of the law as well as the penal
branch, I saw that it occupied the subject of reward would now require the same development the as that of
punishment had received before: the one being as
much a spring of action and instrument of government
as the other.⊞ ⊞ But several considerations
concerned in determining
in to allott to this
subject a separate work. 1. The most proper place for this it which would
have been immediately after the chapters relative
to punishment (Ch. 13, 14, & 15,) But was pre-occupied.
2. I thought As the influence of this spring of
action in government lies comparatively within a narrow
compass, the whole of what I should find to say
about it (would might I thought) being brought into the compass
of one volume which would might I thought form in a work volume of itself
which from the nature of the subject might be rather
less unpopular more readable than the rest other. In This volume might
even be comprized what relates to the application that
may be made of the instrument in question towards the
production of particular services: whereas the whole of the
penal and civil branches of law is included comprized in what
concerns the application of the other injuri punishment.

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Date_1	1782-06-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	126	Info in main headings field	ib to ld ashburton
Image	004	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f5 / f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public	letter 426, vol. 3	ID Number	56946
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