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indirect legislation may be comprised whatever else
can be done by in the way of law in subservience to the
same end. In the one case direct legislation a a he aims directly
at his mark to at least attack the mischief directly and in front: in indirect legislation
he attacks it by oblique and sometimes
scarcely perceptible approaches: in the one case
he endeavours to carry his point as it were by storm: in
the other case, by . Under the latter head
of cases - will be comprised every thing that is expedient that lies
out of the beaten track looked upon as a refinement in legislation.

To Under the head of direct legislation there we
may refer the processes which follow:
1. Choice of
the offense

1. The choice of the acts which are to be turned into offenses
2. Definition
of the offenses
2. The adjusting of the definitionof each offense:
2. The adjusting the description of each act: and in particular the setting
of the definitions of these offenses which in common
speech discourse have acquired, or by analogy are capable
of receiving, a name: such as f murder,
theft, robbery, treason peculation and the like
Reasons for
making it an
offense
2 3. The adjustmenting of the reasons for bestowing on
the several acts in question the quality of an offense;
reasons deducibl consistingent with each other
and deducible from a common and fore established
set of principles.

Identifier: | JB/087/003/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	003	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27528
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