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1819 March 28
Nomography
Constitut. Law, Prelim. Arrangements or Chrestomathia or Deontology
1. Benefit. 2. advantage, i.e. positive benefit. 3. Exemption. 4. Privilege.
5. Prerrogative. 6. Right. 7. Power.
§. In Law, sole universal matter the nomenclature
and phraseology.
Universal Law
Only with reference to language can the attribute denoted
by the word universal be with propriety attributed to
the subject law.
In every each country, at each point of time, it is matter
of accident whether a law to this or that a given precise effect, is in
force: though consideration had of the general effect and not of the
particular tenor there are in no inconsiderable quantity masses
of the matter of law might be found found such as are
not likely to be wanting in any country that has the
use of letters.
A language there is mass of the matter of language might be found, the equivalent of which
can not be wanting in any country, among any assemblage
of human beings, living in the presence of each other
for any considerable length of time. This may be stiled
the language universal law language of law, or the language
of universal law.
The language of universal law is included
in the language of morals: a the sort of fictitious entities, called relations whi correspondent
to those created by the legal branch of the political
sanction, being considered as created by the popular or moral
sanction+ + References to the law of Sanctions: interest, obligation, right, corruption, privilege.
Follows on exposition of some of those terms, the use of which Exposition
upon this occasion is not so much to teach as to fix their import.
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