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Offences against Condition - Adultery

Let us see how far in what respect the establishing and enforcing
the marriage contract is conducive to this desire.

Alway Every particle of pleasure of this kind as
of any other kind is prima facie when considered by itself
a good: Any operation then and it must be taken
for so much clear good till it some evil can be
proved to issue from the same source . . Marry
Any operator therefore which has the effect of presenting
any such pleasure, must pro tanto &
prima facie be deemed an evil.

This being the case, what the inconveniences
are which may result from the experiment of such a
contract is palpable enough. After enjoying the
pleasures in question with one woman for a certain
time, it will almost always happen that
he a man might reap the same pleasure in a greater
degree from the company of some other. And it this
case is the same with regard to the woman. The less than of This difference
then is of pleasure ++and the sense of being obliged to submit to it such a loss constitutes together the
inconvenience and the whole of the inconveniences
which result from [the enforcement of the marriage
contract] this measure of legislation.

Now let us inquire out the benefits of it.

To prevent embarassment will consider in examining the
benefits of itwith to we will speak of only two persons at
a time whom we will call Deucalion and Pyrrha.

Deucalion and Pyrrha find themselves together
at a marriageable age. Neither of them at first [has

Identifier: | JB/071/091/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	091	Info in main headings field	offences against condition - adultery
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	23494
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