[xxxvi. 51]

1821 May 1.

Constitut. Code

First Lines

Instruments incorporeal

2 Instruments

Notes to p.1.

(a) [Force.] Understand physical force, as where an officer of justice seizes the body of a person accused and conducts him to prison, or seizes the goods of a defendant and conducts them to a place where they are to be sold, to raise money to be applied in satisfaction for the debt due to the plaintiff.

(b) [Intimidation] By intimidation understand the production of apprehension of eventual evil as about to be applied by some functionary or functionaries of the Government in question in the name of punishment to the individual in question in the event of his performing any act of the sort in question: it being the intention of the Government in question and thereby to prevent him from so doing

(c) [Remuneration] Understand By remuneration understand

(d) [Well applied] Understand in such manner as to be conducive to the greatest happiness of the greatest numbers

(e) [Ill applied] Understand in such manner as to be detrimental to the greatest happiness of the greatest number: whether subservient or not to the interest real or supposed of the ruler or rulers by whom or by whose orders it is applied