JB/169/128/002

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I shall trouble your Lordship at present I
shall give your Lordship no further trouble: but
in the course of a day or two I shall take the liberty
of sending one sheet more containing the
letters of the chapters of the three essays on indirect legislation
in reward, and on the influence of time and
place, in the state they are in at present, exhibited
at one view.

I have the honour to be &c.

If the form be what I have endeavoured
to make it, the substance of the law would lose
much of by being thrown into any other form a great part of its any utility might have
otherwise possess if not thrown into that form. But the form
might be given to a any body of laws whatsoever were how inexpedient
its imperfections in | soever in point of imbalance those whose excepted as to which has except the
what depends upon the want of amplitude and discrimination
incompleatness the undeterminiteness, contradiction
tautology ambiguity, and obscurity and unwieldiness which it is the special
purpose of the form in question to remove. As a
planmodel of a digest it might be made have its use use of, {were the
matter convey'd included under contained in it by it ever so much disapproved}
looked upon as ever so expedient or impracticable}
although as a system code of new law of legislation it
should be deemed useless or impracticable.

Identifier: | JB/169/128/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 426, vol. 3	ID Number	56948
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