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-expectedly long: so that had it not been for my Brother, I
should have been quite alone.

I am now at work upon my capital work; I mean the
Critical Elements of Jurisprudence. I am not now as heretofore
barely collecting materials but putting it into the form
in which I propose that it should stand. I am working upon
a plan which will enable me to detach a part and publish
it separate from the rest. The part that I am now
upon is the Law of Personal Injuries: from thence I shall
proceed to the Law relative to such acts as are Injurious
to Property and Reputation. This will include the whole
of the Criminal Law relative to such offences as have determinate
individuals for their objects. This part may be characterized
by the name of the Law relative to Private
Wrongs. The remainder in that case will come under
that of the Law relative to Public Wrongs. But a much
clearer and more natural line will be drawn between the
offences that respectively come under those divisions, than the technical
mode of considering the subject would admitt of Blackstone's
drawing. Previous to these details will come that
part of the work which contains the general principles
by which the execution of those details is governed. Of
this preliminary part the plan is pretty well settled,
and the materials in good measure collected.

By what I have seen and learnt concerning Sam's
work, I doubt not his doing great things in Geometry.
The rogue is pressing me — so I must have done.

I have sent him upon the Mare thinking this would

Identifier: | JB/538/067/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1776-10-01	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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