1821 April 15.

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Means

1. Distributive

3. Security.

For the case in which the persons against whose enterprises the security is to be granted are foreigners /foreign adversaries/. see \PS\ Constitutional Law.

For the case in which the person or persons against whose enterprises the security is to be afforded occupy in relation to the persons to whom it is to be afforded, the situation of Rulers, see again \PS\ Constitutional Law. Remains the case in which the persons against whose enterprises security is to be afforded, are considered in the character of subjects.

In this instance, the principal and leading operation by which the security is afforded, consists in giving to the several acts distinguishable and accordingly distinguished acts by which the security considered as applied to the several abovementioned sorts of possessions, is considered as being broken in upon and lessened, the denomination, and character and in the case of the persons considered as engaged in the exercise of those acts, the effects of so many different offences considered with reference to the persons engaged in the exercise of those acts. But so nice and difficult of apprehension is in many cases the distinction - on the one hand between one mode of delinquency and another - on the other hand between the /each/ several modes of delinquency and innocence: - and so inadequate to the purpose of conveying in this case, a clear, correct and complete conception of the object denominated, is the denomination itself - any single word of which a denomination can be composed, - that to each such denomination, it is altogether necessary that a distinction /be subjoined/ - or to speak more extensively a exposition - be subjoined, as also on the occasion of each such exposition a portion of explanatory matter, applied to the several distinguishable terms of which, it is composed.