1821 April 15

S.3. Security

Third on the list of the benefits which the Civil branch of the Law is

occupied in distributing security. Security considered as

applied to individuals has for its objects, four distinguishable

possessions: person, reputation, property, and condition in

life.

Security has for its adversaries, against whose enterprises is to be

afforded, three classes of persons differently situated and denominated

viz. foreign adversaries considered as such, — foreigners considered

in so far as they are, or are liable to become

adversaries; fellow citizens or fellow subjects, considered in

that same light; rulers viz. of the country in question considered in that

same light.

As to Acts against which, security is to be afforded & by

which in so far as they are performed

, security or broken in upon & lessened, they

are in themselves & their immediate effects

the same, by which soever of the three species of adversaries they are

exercised. Taken however in the aggregate, they are wont to be designated

by a different denomination according to the situation of the

class, to which the person or persons by whom they are exercised, is

considered as belonging: if to that of foreign adversaries, they are

denominated acts of hostility: if, to that of domestic

adversaries, considered in the character of subjects, acts of delinquency;

if to that of domestic adversaries, considered in the character of rulers,

acts of oppression, or if the oppression be considered as to a certain

degree flagrant, acts of tyrannt: if

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