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1823. June 18
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Ideas , verba. – Hence, that language most apt which affords
the richest set of conjugates.

Latin does this – Greek, Latin and Teutonic the radical languages
of the most civilized nations. Latin most apt for politics and ,
Greek for physics. English the best most apt Latin sprung language⊞ ⊞ as possessing in the
highest degree the aggregate
of three appropriate
qualities – simplicity of
texture, ductility, and
augmentability. as being the most
simple and touchable.

Each branch of law will have its appropriate mass of language.
Constitutional, as being the first in order, which must be the first to employ what belongs to happiness

Under Constitutional – Object or End put what belongs to happiness: its
relation to felicity – pains, pleasures –
to J.B.s "Springs

A good Code ought to be its own Institute: it ought to supersede all demand
for every other. For Law, one book; for Divinity, none, divinity
teaches what it is impossible to know.

I Masses of language belonging to Constitution Code are – 1. Happiness
2. . 3. Aptitude. Ends general and specific. Law administers administers
pain directly: not pleasure: it puts the instruments, or leaves them, in men's way.

II. To Penal, Misdeeds – Punishment Compensation – Exemptions.
Circumstance Aggravation – Extenuation – Exemption.

III To Civil, Rights – Events collative, ablative &c. (But these
must have been instead brought to view under Penal.) Contracts –
Conveyances.

IV. To Procedure Evidence Extraction of Instruments of Main object of Procedure Forthcomingness of persons & things
for justiciability and testification.

Imperfection of language in general in relation to this subject part of the field. Antiquity
Same name for operation and result.
Terms neutral – eulogistic – dyslogistic.

Connected and consistent with a Code of Law ought to be a do
of Morals. Law acts by indicati creation or factitious Motives:
Morality by indication of naturally-existing ones.

Of what is done towards fixing the import, or augmenting
the quantit stock of the appropriate part of the language
what must be the place? Answer. Either
Preliminary Explanations, or the Expositive part of the
Code, or both: the Expository part of the Code fixing the
import of the leading terms and phrases as they occurr: the
Preliminary Explanations laying down the rules.

An annext appropriate vocabulary is one essential appendage to each
Code.

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Date_1	1823-06-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	549	Main Headings
Folio number	172	Info in main headings field	Constitut. Code. Preliminary Explanations
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