JB/549/065/001

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1821 Decr 29.
Constitutional Code Penal Code – Form

For this instead of a clear and be it to have
composed of qualities and as are

To fulfill its purpose it is matter of indispensable necessity
that the present draught should convey to every mind the
ideas it means to convey without any use made of terms
any term whatever the import of which can no otherwise
be to ascertained or looked for but by reference to some
system of jurisprudence already at present in force: such as the
Roman for example, and the English.

For this purpose it has been necessary that all the
terms employed should in the language in which it is penned
by drawn from the body of the language from that mass of words
which is in common use, in a word which is in use with
all persons to whose use situation the proposed if
supposing there to have acquired the form of laws will apply.

Only of my own language can I flatter myself
with the notion of possessing any such full command as
would be is necessary to the purpose of fixing upon the
very terms words that, in every instance throughout the
whole texture of the discourse, shall be fully adequate
to the purpose The consequence is – that should
the a native citizen of any other state country think fit to employ
his time in translating this English work into his own
language, it may happen to him in a more or less
considerable number of instances happen to him to
find himself under the necessity of giving up in so far the
enterprize of rendering endeavour to render his translation a liberal one,
in which case in supposing the English text so far approved
of as to be taken for a model, an imitation rather than
a translation will be the proper appellation of that part of his work.

Identifier: | JB/549/065/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1821-12-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-5
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code. Penal Code. Form
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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