3 August 1805

Evidence

Introd Jurisprudential

Vices

'' 7 - Scantiness

' 7. Scantiness in point of extent of provision.

of This defect it /the seal[?]/ may be observed in not in this or that particular point of the jurisprudential system, but in that which together taken as a whole.

This defect it may /again/ be again observed

Another observation that may present itself /occur/ is that this defect defect being shared by statutory, ought not to be set down to the account of jurisprudential law.

In every body of statutory law say yet, most deficiencies might be observed /pointed out/ /discovered/ by an acute and observant eye: acts productive of real mischief, of a mass of mischief greater than any that would be produced by the penal and other coercive forms necessary to keep them in check - acts of this description left either altogether without adequate without prohibition, or what comes to the same thing, without punishment or burthening subjection to the profit of the efficient[?] circumstances opening respectively in point of reason and utility, in the character of causes of aggravation, justification, examination or extermination, not made to operate on these several ways by appointment of law: the different parts in which it is in the enumerance[?] of the different acts of delinquency respectively different individuals may be found to have appeared in the character of co-delinquents, not marked out in the list of them compleated upon any existent and comprehensive plan; in respect of the different stages in which in the case of each species /preservation[?] of each plan/ of delinquency respectively it is possible for the same individual to appear /act/ in the course of his culpable career - such as acts of proportion, attempts, acts of [...?], the same /like/ want of plan, and in consequence /accordingly/ the like deficiency.