★ Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
INDIRECT LEGISLATION. Definition.
Instances of my invention 1 Against every thing that concerns escapes & rescues whether by criminals strangers or Officers — Penalty for Relations & indeed Friends assisting in escapes, banishment to the Colonies without Slavery. Stigmatization. 2 Against Fornication Prostitution Law imposing giving a monopoly of certain businesses to Women. The motives here are Idleness & comparative Poverty. 3 Against Accidents from Drovers Penalty upon the Masters sed Qu. & this is in some degree Penal. Instances of it in the Stat. of Frauds & Perjuries — against
Perjuries — In the Marriage Act + + 4 Against this already subsists, the necessity of the penal clauses arises merely from the want of notoriety of the avoidance Clandestine Marriages — by simply making them void — this to be made notorious by binding it up with the Matrimonial Service in the common Prayer-book sticking it up in some place certain in the Church & including it in the proposed Moral Catechism. — A conditional restrictive clause should be inserted in the very body of the Form — making the age, or consent of Parents if within age the condition of the state's being conferred: itself which by making certain
Marriages void cutt off the necessity of the severe acts
against stealing infant Heiresses.
Definition Idea of Indirect Legislation
Indirect Legislation is where an obnoxious act [practise] is
endevored attempted to be suppressed, not by opposing motives planting artificial motives stronger artificial to the
abstaining from it stronger in direct opposition the natural ones to for the doing it
but by such a disposition of things as shall either cut off
these latter motives or the power: thus instead of opposing the act itself taking away the it's cause. of the
act instead of opposing the act itself
Identifier: | JB/096/254/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
096 |
indirect legislation |
||
254 |
indirect legislation definition |
||
002 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
c1 / f196 |
||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[motif] l v g]] |
||
caroline vernon |
|||
31258 |
|||