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BY the first conveyance that offers itself
you will receive a thick volume volumes which very probably
you will never read. areIt is entitled
Principles of legal policy.Theory of Punishment. They areIt is part of
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to which can
if ever it should
be compleated I
intend to give some
such title as
that of Principles
of Legal Policy:
The object of it a work [+] the object of which is to trace out
a new model for the Laws: of my own country
you may imagine, in the first place: but keeping
those of other countries all along in view. To
ascertain what the Laws ought to be, in long form
and as well as in matter: and that elsewhere as
well as here.All that I shall say to recommend it to you is
that I have taken counsel of you much oftener than of
our own Ld Coke and Hale and Blackstone.
The repose of Grotius and Puffenddorf and Barbegae
and Burlamaque I would never wish
to see disturbed. I have built solely on the foundation
of itility, laid as it is by Helvetius. Bea
has been lucerna pedibusor if you <add>please</add> members meis. Perhaps what
I have done may be found but cobweb-work.
Such as it is however it is spun out of my
own brain. As such I send it you It is neither borrow'd nor pilfer'd
I have spent upon it in the whole already about 7 years.
I mean to bestow upon it the rest of my lifedays, which

Identifier: | JB/169/013/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 169.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	169	Main Headings
Folio number	013	Info in main headings field	to volt. &c
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 192, vol. 1	ID Number	57075002
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