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The Theory Of Legislation

Author(s): Bentham, Jeremy

ISBN10: 1843711214

ISBN13: 9781843711216

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Translator's Preface

iii

PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION

The Principle of Utility

(3)

The Ascetic Principle

(2)

The Arbitrary Principle; or, the Principle of Sympathy and Antipathy

(7)

Operation of these Principles upon Legislation

(2)

Further Explanations. Objections Answered

(5)

The different kinds of Pleasures and Pains

(7)

Pains and Pleasures considered as Sanctions

(4)

The Measure of Pleasures and Pains

(2)

Circumstances which Affect Sensibility

(15)

Analysis of Political Good and Evil. Their Diffusion through Society

(6)

Reasons for Erecting Certain Acts into Offences

(6)

The Limits which Separate Morals from Legislation

(6)

False Methods of Reasoning on the Subject of Legislation

(27)

PRINCIPLES OF THE CIVIL CODE

Introduction

(5)

Part First. Objects of the Civil Law

Rights and Obligations

(3)

Ends of Civil Law

(1)

Relations between these Ends

(3)

Laws relatively to Subsistence

100

(1)

Laws relatively to Abundance

101

(1)

Pathological Propositions upon which the Good of Equality is Founded

102

(7)

Of Security

109

(2)

Of Property

111

(2)

Answer to an Objection

113

(2)

Analysis of the Evils which result from Attacks upon Property

115

(4)

Opposition between Security and Equality

119

(3)

Means of Uniting Security and Equality

122

(2)

Sacrifice of Security to Security

124

(2)

Of some Cases liable to be Contested

126

(11)

Examples of Attacks upon Security

137

(9)

Forced Exchanges

146

(2)

Power of the Laws over Expectation

148

(10)

Part Second. Distribution of Property

Titles which constitute Property

158

(10)

Title by Consent

168

(9)

Title by Succession

177

(6)

Testaments

183

(4)

Rights to Services. Methods of acquiring them

187

(7)

Community of Goods, or Tenancy in Common

194

(3)

Distribution of Loss

197

(2)

Part Third. Rights and Obligations Attached to Several Private Conditions

Introduction

199

(1)

Master and Servant

199

(2)

Of Slavery

201

(8)

Guardian and Ward

209

(4)

Father and Child

213

(2)

Of Marriage

215

(24)

PRINCIPLES OF THE PENAL CODE

Part First. Of Offences

Introduction

239

(1)

Classification of Offences

239

(2)

Sub-division of Offences

241

(3)

Some other Divisions

244

(2)

Evil of the Second Order, or Alarm

246

(1)

Evil of the First Order---Its Influence on Alarm

247

(2)

The Influence of Intention on Alarm

249

(2)

Position of the Delinquent---Its effect on Alarm

251

(1)

The Influence of Motives on Alarm

252

(4)

Facility or Difficulty of Preventing Offences---Their Influence on Alarm

256

(1)

Effect produced on Alarm by the greater or less Facility of Secrecy

257

(1)

Effect of the Delinquent's Character on Alarm

258

(6)

Cases in which there is no Alarm

264

(1)

Cases in which there is no Greater Danger than Alarm

265

(1)

Grounds of Justification

266

(5)

Part Second. Political Remedies against the Evil of Offences

Subject of this Part

271

(1)

Direct Means of Preventing Offences

272

(3)

Chronic Offences

275

(2)

Supressive Remedies for Chronic Offences

277

(2)

Observations on Martial Law

279

(1)

Nature of Satisfaction

280

(1)

Reasons on which the Necessity of Satisfaction is founded

281

(1)

The different Kinds of Satisfaction

282

(1)

The Quantity of Satisfaction

283

(1)

The Certainty of Satisfaction

284

(2)

Pecuniary Satisfaction

286

(2)

Restitution in Nature

288

(3)

Attestatory Satisfaction

291

(3)

Honorary Satisfaction

294

(11)

Remedies for Offences against Honour

305

(4)

Vindictive Satisfaction

309

(1)

Substitutive Satisfaction; or, Satisfaction at the Expense of a Third Person

310

(7)

Subsidiary Satisfaction at the Public Expense

317

(5)

Part Third. Of Punishments

Punishments which ought not to be inflicted

322

(2)

Proportion between Offences and Punishments

324

(3)

Of Prescription as regards Punishments

327

(2)

Mistaken Punishments, or Punishments misapplied

329

(4)

Of requiring Security for Good Behaviour

333

(3)

The Choice of Punishments

336

(5)

The Kinds of Punishments

341

(2)

Justification of Variety in Punishments

343

(4)

Examination of some Common Punishments

347

(8)

The Power of Pardoning

355

(7)

Part Fourth. Indirect Means of Preventing Offences

Introduction

358

(4)

Means of taking away the Physical Power to do Harm

362

(4)

Prohibition of acquiring Knowledge which may be turned to a Bad Purpose

366

(5)

Indirect Means of preventing the Wish to commit Offences

371

(2)

To change the Course of Dangerous Desires, and to direct the Inclinations towards Amusements conformable to the Public Interest

373

(7)

To satisfy certain Desires without Injury, or with the least possible Injury

380

(13)

To avoid furnishing Encouragement to Crime

393

(3)

To increase Responsibility in proportion as Temptation increases

396

(1)

To diminish the Sensibility to Temptation

397

(2)

To strenghen the Impression of Punishments upon the Imagination

399

(3)

To facilitate Knowledge of the Fact of an Offence

402

(13)

To prevent Offences by giving to many Persons an Interest to prevent them

415

(1)

To facilitate the Means of recognising and finding Individuals

416

(3)

To increase the Difficulty of Escape

419

(1)

To diminish the Uncertainty of Prosecutions and Punishments

419

(4)

To prohibit Accessory Offences, in order to prevent the Principal Offence

423

(4)

Cultivation of Benevolence

427

(5)

Employment of the Motive of Honour, or the Popular Sanction

432

(2)

Employment of the Motive of Religion

434

(8)

Use to be made of the Power of Instruction

442

(3)

Use to be made of the Power of Education

445

(4)

General Precautions against Abuses of Authority

449

(18)

Means of diminishing the Bad Effects of Offences General Result and Conclusion

467

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