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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 his 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 sap. 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 definition of 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 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 pre-established
set of principles.

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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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