JB/549/071/001

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1928 June 24
Nomography.Enactment – Forms of

Never as yet has this sort of appendage here termed a
Rationale been attached to any large body of law. Witness
the five French Codes of Napoleon. Witness the Austrian Civil Code
the Principle Code in Volumes promulgated during the Chancellorship
of Von Carner, in a word every such body most of the bodies
of Law as at which at this time presents itself present themselves.

Accordingly the sort of legislative matter to which this
with few or no exceptions

Not that instances are altogether wanting, in
particular of late years in which a mass of ratiocinative
matter is attached to the Enactive. But in those instances the
form in which it appears is that of a separate dissertation prefixt
the whole of it to the whole of that which is in the enactive
form, and occupying the places occupied and performs the same purposes
by a Preface or an Introduction in the case of a literary work
at large. Witness the paper prefixt to one of Bonaparte's
Codes the antecedently to its receipt of the touch of the sceptre.
Witness a long dissertation prefixt by M. to the Bavarian
Code of which he purports to be the penman.

The sort of matter to which this sort of recitative
to borrow a word from Musical branch of the Fine Arts is attached
is commonly if not exclusively a law of body of legislative
matter of comparatively small dimension, issued on this or that
particular occasion for on this or that particular subject, for this or that
particular purpose. Thus it is in English Acts as they follow
one another every year in such succession: thus it is in the
French Laws as they appear in the Bulletin des Lois.

Identifier: | JB/549/071/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 549.
Date_1	1829-06-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-12
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field	Nomography
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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