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20 Feby 1803
Evidence
In so far as the event thus predicted by the law is of
a nature favourable to this or that individual interested
in the fulfilment of such prediction, an expectation
of the pleasurable kind is raised in his breast; and which this
expectation, if the prediction fails at being fulfilled, is followed
and put an end to by disappointment: an event to
which a particular kind of pain is in such case inseparably annexed:
– a pain of disappointment.
The perfection of a system of procedure consists
in the degree of regularity and uniformity and compleatness
and certainty, and constancy, with which the predictions
delivered conveyed by the system of substantive law are accomplished:
– with which the expectations raised by the system
of substantive law are fulfilled. So far as the expectations
produced by the system of substantive law are fulfilled,
so far the object of it is missed. so far the law fails at
the purpose of its substantive
that only that good. but for which
the substantive of that as of every law if the coercion hand
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jeremy bentham |
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1800 |
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[[notes_public::"cancel, or engraft into introd. ch. 2 relation to procedure" [note in bentham's hand]]] |
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