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1827. Feby Jun 1831 May 5
Pannomion Penal Code.
B.1. Offences collectively
Ch. 1 Field and End.
§.
Ch. 1 Field and End.
§.

1.
End that of all Law.

2.
Subheads
1. Repression of evil
2 Promotion of good

3.
Reason looks to end,
custom to nothing but
itself.

4.
Security for rectitude
respice finem.

5.
Field that of all Law.

6.
Greatest happiness,
the end, — means, punishment
& reward.

7.
Thus, nothing is to be done
to sentimental resentment.

8.
Every law contains
two commands
1. agent, person at large
2. agent the Judge.

9.
Distinction between
formation of good and
repression of evil —
Remuneratory law.

10.
Penal branch the enactive.

11.
Non-penal the expositive.

12. Relation of substantive
to adjective law.

13.
Relation of General
Code to particular
Codes

14.
Matter of universal,
and do of only local
application.

Ch. Field and End.
§.

14.
Matter of universal
and do of only local application
Basis of this Code, the
greatest happiness
principle.

Definition

2.
By greatest happiness
principle, understand
that which states as
the all-directing object,
the production of the greatest
possible happiness
to the greatest possible
number of members of
the community in
question.

3.
Corresponding rule Maximize
the aggregate happiness —

4.
To maximize happiness
is to maximize good
and minimize evil.

Definition

5.
Good is pleasure and
exemption from pain.
Evil is pain, or absence
or loss of pleasure.

6.
1. More pain is produced
by loss, than pleasure by
pgain.
2. The greater the quantity
of the matter of good a
person has, the less the
increase of pleasure
given by the addition
of an instrument of
pleasure.

Definition

8.
By subsistence, understand
all instruments
of existence, and efficient
causes of continuance
of existence.

Ch. Field & End.
§.

9.
Existence no otherwise
valuable than
as the basis of pleasure

10.
By security, understand
all possible exemption
from evil.

11.
By increase in quantity,
the matter of
subsistence becomes
matter of abundance.

12.
By the matter of subsistence,
a certain
quantity of pleasure
is produced.

By the matter of
abundance, a proportional
increase
of security, and thereby
increase of pleasure
and exemption
from pain.

13.
By equality, in the
distribution of instruments
of existence,
security and
abundance — increase
of good, and diminution
of evil is produced.

14.
In conformity to greatest
happiness principle,
the maximization
of good is the end of
Government: good and
evil the means.

15.
So applied, the matter
of good is the matter
of reward — the matter
of evil, the matter of
punishment.

§.

16.
Subject matters of Government —
instruments
of good and evil — of
reward and punishment —
either persons or things

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