JB/118/391/002

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14 August 1810
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Laws of sudden enquiry consultable at leisure

For reconciling cognoscibility with the other points of goodness goodness in other
respects, the following is the course he will pursue.

The whole body of the law he will for this purpose consider as
divided into two parts: 1. The General Code: 2. The
system of particular Codes.

Under In the General Code he will insert all such
matter as it may concern any one as well as any other to be
acquainted with.

To each person or class of persons that have belonging
to it to it a set of legal provisions no part of which belongs
to any person or persons he will allot a Particular Code
belonging to it, viz. in respect of obligations imposed on
it, or rights conferred on it, or both together in one.

Thus among in the list of the particular codes will be found
not only Law of Husbands and Wives, Law of Parents
and Children, but Law of Housekeepers – Law of
Travellers, Law of Agriculturists, Law of Shop-keepers and of each particular sort⊞ ⊞ if Shop keeper that have any law peculiar to itself and so forth down
to the narrowest denomination of persons whether on the score of rights or obligations that has belonging
to it a set of laws peculiar to itself in which no other has a share ⊞ of that law any law peculiar to itself.

In regard to both portions he will bear in his
mind the such distinction between Laws indicated by the
two following denominations – viz. Laws of sudden exigency for sudden use
and Laws consultable at leisure.

To the head of Laws of sudden exigency for sudden use he will
refer all such ever law there is that are of such a nature that the demand need
of being acquainted with them it may at any time come
upon a man unawares: so much that if at the very
moment at which the incident by which the need is produced takes
place he be not aware of it fails of being duly apprised of it,
it may happen to him
for want of such knowledge
to sustain some
irreparable mischief

Identifier: | JB/118/391/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	391	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b1 b4 / c1 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft of enclosure to letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39445
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