Works of Jeremy Bentham: Table of Contents

Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

Jeremy Bentham, The Works of Jeremy Bentham, published under the Superintendence of his Executor, John Bowring (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1838-1843). 11 vols.

1. Vol. 1. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2009>
2. Vol. 2. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1921>
3. Vol. 3. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1922>
4. Vol. 4. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1925>
5. Vol. 5. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1996>
6. Vol. 6. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1923>
7. Vol. 7. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1998>
8. Vol. 8. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2208>
9. Vol. 9. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1999>
10. Vol. 10. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2085>
11.  Vol. 11. <https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/2234>

See also:

• Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
• The Philosophical Radicals

 

Vol. 1 Table of Contents

• GENERAL PREFACE.
• INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE WORKS OF JEREMY BENTHAM;
  • SECTION I.: BENTHAM'S STYLE AND METHOD OF THINKING.
  • SECTION II.: THE GREATEST-HAPPINESS PRINCIPLE AND ITS APPLICATION TO MORALS AND LEGISLATION.
  • SECTION III.: THE PURSUIT OF TRUTH.—FALLACIES.—PRINCIPLES OF EVIDENCE.
  • SECTION IV.: SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.
  • SECTION IV.: LAW REFORM.
  • SECTION VI.: PRINCIPLES OF PUNISHMENT.
  • SECTION VII.: POOR LAWS, EDUCATION, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS FOR NATIONAL AMELIORATION.
  • SECTION VIII.: INTERNATIONAL LAW.
  • SECTION IX.: POLITICAL ECONOMY.
  • SECTION X.: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS.†
• AN INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION. (1780)
  • PREFACE.
  • CHAPTER I.: OF THE PRINCIPLE OF UTILITY.
  • CHAPTER II.: OF PRINCIPLES ADVERSE TO THAT OF UTILITY.
  • CHAPTER III.: OF THE FOUR* SANCTIONS OR SOURCES OF PAIN AND PLEASURE.
  • CHAPTER IV.: VALUE OF A LOT OF PLEASURE OR PAIN, HOW TO BE MEASURED.
  • CHAPTER V.: PLEASURES AND PAINS, THEIR KINDS.
  • CHAPTER VI.: OF CIRCUMSTANCES INFLUENCING SENSIBILITY.
  • CHAPTER VII.: OF HUMAN ACTIONS IN GENERAL.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: OF INTENTIONALITY.
  • CHAPTER IX.: OF CONSCIOUSNESS.
  • CHAPTER X.: OF MOTIVES.
  • CHAPTER XI.: OF HUMAN DISPOSITIONS IN GENERAL.
  • CHAPTER XII.: OF THE CONSEQUENCES OF A MISCHIEVOUS ACT.
  • CHAPTER XIII.*: OF CIRCUMSTANCES INFLUENCING THE DEGREE OF ALARM.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: REASONS FOR CONSIDERING CERTAIN ACTIONS AS CRIMES.*
  • CHAPTER XV.
  • CHAPTER XVI.
  • CHAPTER XVII.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.
  • CHAPTER XIX.
• ESSAY ON THE PROMULGATION OF LAWS, AND THE REASONS THEREOF; WITH SPECIMEN OF A PENAL CODE. (n.d.)
  • I.: PROMULGATION OF THE LAWS.*
  • II.: PROMULGATION OF REASONS.
  • SPECIMEN OF A PENAL CODE.*
• ESSAY ON THE INFLUENCE OF TIME AND PLACE IN MATTERS OF LEGISLATION. (n.d.)
  • INTRODUCTION.*
  • CHAPTER I.: PRINCIPLES TO BE FOLLOWED IN TRANS PLANTING LAWS.
  • CHAPTER II.: REGARD TO BE PAID TO SUBSISTING INSTITUTIONS.
  • CHAPTER III.: RULES RESPECTING THE METHOD OF TRANSPLANTING LAWS.
  • CHAPTER IV.: LAWS APPEAR THE WORSE FOR BEING TRANSPLANTED.
  • CHAPTER V.: INFLUENCE OF TIME.
• A TABLE OF THE SPRINGS OF ACTION (1817)
  • TABLE OF THE SPRINGS OF ACTION.
  • I.: EXPLANATIONS.
  • II.: OBSERVATIONS.
• A FRAGMENT ON GOVERNMENT (1776)
  • PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION, PUBLISHED IN 1776.
  • HISTORICAL PREFACE, INTENDED FOR THE SECOND EDITION.
  • LETTER THE FIRST. Of an Examination into the merits of a Critique on Blackstone's Commentaries, lately published under the Title of a Fragment on Government.
  • LETTER THE SECOND. Of an Examination into the merits of a Critique on Blackstone's Commentaries, lately published under the Title of A Fragment on Government.
  • LETTER THE THIRD. By John Lind, Esq. afterwards Barrister at Law, to D., Author of two Letters* on A Fragment on Government.
• PRINCIPLES OF THE CIVIL CODE. (n.d.)
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • PART I.—: OBJECTS OF THE CIVIL LAW.*
    • CHAPTER I.: OF RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS.
    • CHAPTER II.: DISTINCT OBJECTS OF THE CIVIL LAW.
    • CHAPTER III.: RELATION BETWEEN THESE OBJECTS.
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF LAWS RELATIVE TO SUBSISTENCE.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF LAWS RELATIVE TO ABUNDANCE.
    • CHAPTER VI.: PROPOSITIONS OF PATHOLOGY UPON WHICH THE ADVANTAGE OF EQUALITY IS FOUNDED.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF SECURITY.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: OF PROPERTY.
    • CHAPTER IX.: ANSWER TO AN OBJECTION.
    • CHAPTER X.: ANALYSIS OF THE EVILS RESULTING FROM ATTACKS UPON PROPERTY.
    • CHAPTER XI.: SECURITY AND EQUALITY—THEIR OPPOSITION.
    • CHAPTER XII.: SECURITY AND EQUALITY—MEANS OF RECONCILIATION.
    • CHAPTER XIII.: SACRIFICES OF SECURITY TO SECURITY.
    • CHAPTER XIV.: CASES SUBJECT TO DISPUTE.
    • CHAPTER XV.: EXAMPLES OF ATTACKS UPON SECURITY.
    • CHAPTER XVI.: OF FORCED EXCHANGES.
    • CHAPTER XVII.: POWER OF THE LAWS OVER EXPECTATION.
  • PART II.
    • CHAPTER I.: OF TITLES WHICH CONFER A RIGHT TO PROPERTY.*
    • CHAPTER II.: ANOTHER MODE OF ACQUISITION—CONSENT.
    • CHAPTER III.: ANOTHER MEANS OF ACQUISITION—SUCCESSION.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF WILLS.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF RIGHTS RESPECTING SERVICES—MEANS OF ACQUIRING THEM.
    • CHAPTER VI.: COMMUNITY OF GOODS—ITS INCONVENIENCES.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF DISTRIBUTION OF LOSS.
  • PART III.: OF THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS ATTACHED TO DIFFERENT PRIVATE CONDITIONS.
    • INTRODUCTION.
    • CHAPTER I.: OF MASTER AND SERVANT.
    • CHAPTER II.: OF SLAVERY.
    • CHAPTER III.: OF GUARDIAN AND WARD.
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF PARENT AND CHILD.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF MARRIAGE.
  • APPENDIX.: OF THE LEVELLING SYSTEM.*
• PRINCIPLES OF PENAL LAW. (n.d.)
  • PART I.: POLITICAL REMEDIES FOR THE EVIL OF OFFENCES.
  • PART II.—: RATIONALE OF PUNISHMENT.
    • BOOK I.: GENERAL PRINCIPLES.
    • BOOK II.: OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENTS.
    • BOOK III.: OF PRIVATIVE PUNISHMENTS, OR FORFEITURES.
    • BOOK IV.: OF THE PROPER SEAT OF PUNISHMENT: OR SAY, OF MIS-SEATED PUNISHMENT.
    • BOOK V.: OF COMPLEX PUNISHMENTS.
    • BOOK VI.: MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS.
    • APPENDIX—: ON DEATH-PUNISHMENT.∥ JEREMY BENTHAM TO HIS FELLOW-CITIZENS OF FRANCE.
  • PART III.: OF INDIRECT MEANS OF PREVENTING CRIMES.

Vol. 2 Table of Contents:

• PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL PROCEDURE, WITH THE OUTLINES OF A PROCEDURE CODE. (1827)
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER I.: GENERAL VIEW—ENDS OF JUDICATURE.
  • CHAPTER II.: ENDS APT AND UNAPT.
  • CHAPTER III.: PROCEDURE—ITS RELATION TO THE REST OF THE LAW.
  • CHAPTER IV.: JUDICIARY ESTABLISHMENT.
  • CHAPTER V.: PROCEDURE—ITS SUBJECT-MATTERS.
  • CHAPTER VI.: ALL-COMPREHENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS.
  • CHAPTER VII.: PRACTICAL GENERAL RULES.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: JUDICIAL APPLICATION.
  • CHAPTER IX.: PROXIES.
  • CHAPTER X.: JUDICIAL COMMUNICATION.
  • CHAPTER XI.: EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XII.: INITIATORY HEARING.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: DEFENCE, HOW ELICITED.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: SUITS, THEIR SORTS.
  • CHAPTER XV.: SUITS, CONTINUANCE OF.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: SUITS—TERMINATION.
  • CHAPTER XVII.: SUITS, THEIR STAGES.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.: MEANS OF EXECUTION.
  • CHAPTER XIX.: COUNTER-SECURITY.
  • CHAPTER XX.: REMEDIES,—COMPENSATION.
  • CHAPTER XXI.: JUDICIAL TRANSFER.
  • CHAPTER XXII.: PREHENSION.
  • CHAPTER XXIII.: JURY-TRIAL.
  • CHAPTER XXIV.: SPECIAL JURIES.
  • CHAPTER XXV.: GRAND JURIES.
  • CHAPTER XXVI.: QUASI-JURY.
  • CHAPTER XXVII.: RECAPITULATORY EXAMINATION, OR QUASI-TRIAL.
  • CHAPTER XXVIII.: APPEAL AND QUASI-APPEAL.
  • CHAPTER XXIX.: NATURAL AND TECHNICAL SYSTEMS COMPARED.
  • APPENDIX A.: INITIAL SKETCH OF THE PROCEDURE CODE.
  • APPENDIX B.: ACCOUNT-TAKING JUDICATORIES.
  • APPENDIX C.: BRITISH INDIA—JURY SYSTEM.
• THE RATIONALE OF REWARD. (c. 1790s)
  • REMARKS BY MR. BENTHAM.
  • PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
  • BOOK I.—: OF REWARDS IN GENERAL.
  • BOOK II.—: REWARDS APPLIED TO OFFICES.
  • BOOK III.—: REWARD APPLIED TO ART AND SCIENCE.
  • APPENDIX.
• LEADING PRINCIPLES OF A CONSTITUTIONAL CODE, FOR ANY STATE. (1823)
  • CONSTITUTIONAL CODE, &c. &c.
  • SECTION I.: ENDS AIMED AT.
  • SECTION II.: PRINCIPAL MEANS EMPLOYED FOR THE ATTAINMENT OF THE ABOVE ENDS.
• LIBERTY OF THE PRESS, AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION. (1821)
  • JEREMY BENTHAM TO THE SPANISH PEOPLE.
  • MEASURES PROPOSED.
• AN ESSAY ON POLITICAL TACTICS, OR INQUIRIES CONCERNING THE DISCIPLINE AND MODE OF PROCEEDING PROPER TO BE OBSERVED IN POLITICAL ASSEMBLIES: PRINCIPALLY APPLIED TO THE PRACTICE OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT, AND TO THE CONSTITUTION AND SITUATION OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE. (1791)
  • CHAPTER I.: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
  • CHAPTER II.: OF PUBLICITY.
  • CHAPTER III.: OF THE PLACE OF MEETING AND ITS DEPENDENCIES.
  • CHAPTER IV.: OF WHAT CONCERNS THE MEMBERS PRESENT AT A LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.
  • CHAPTER V.: OF THE PRESIDENTS AND VICE-PRESIDENTS BELONGING TO POLITICAL ASSEMBLIES.
  • CHAPTER VI.*: OF THE MODE OF PROCEEDING IN A POLITICAL ASSEMBLY IN THE FORMATION OF ITS DECISIONS.
  • CHAPTER VII.: OF THE PROPOSAL OF MEASURES FOR ADOPTION.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: OF THE DIFFERENT ACTS WHICH ENTER INTO THE FORMATION OF A DECREE.
  • CHAPTER IX.: OF THE PROMULGATION OF MOTIONS—OF BILLS—OF AMENDMENTS, AND THEIR WITHDRAWMENT.
  • CHAPTER X.: OF THE DRAWING UP OF LAWS.
  • CHAPTER XI.: OF DEBATES.
  • CHAPTER XII.: OF AMENDMENTS.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: OF DILATORY MOTIONS, OR MOTIONS OF ADJOURNMENT.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: OF VOTING.
  • CHAPTER XV.: OF COMMITTEES.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: OF FORMULAS.
• THE BOOK OF FALLACIES: FROM UNFINISHED PAPERS OF JEREMY BENTHAM. EDITED BY A FRIEND.
  • INTRODUCTION. (1824)
  • PART I.: FALLACIES OF AUTHORITY, THE SUBJECT OF WHICH IS AUTHORITY IN VARIOUS SHAPES, AND THE OBJECT TO REPRESS ALL EXERCISE OF THE REASONING FACULTY.
  • PART II.: FALLACIES OF DANGER, THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF WHICH IS DANGER IN VARIOUS SHAPES, AND THE OBJECT TO REPRESS DISCUSSION ALTOGETHER, BY EXCITING ALARM.
  • PART III.: FALLACIES OF DELAY, THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF WHICH IS DELAY IN VARIOUS SHAPES—AND THE OBJECT, TO POSTPONE DISCUSSION, WITH A VIEW OF ELUDING IT.
  • PART IV.: FALLACIES OF CONFUSION, THE OBJECT OF WHICH IS, TO PERPLEX, WHEN DISCUSSION CAN NO LONGER BE AVOIDED.
  • PART V
• ANARCHICAL FALLACIES; BEING AN EXAMINATION OF THE DECLARATIONS OF RIGHTS ISSUED DURING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. (1796)
  • AN EXAMINATION OF THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF THE MAN AND THE CITIZEN DECREED BY THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY IN FRANCE.
  • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF THE MAN AND THE CITIZEN, ANNO 1795.
  • OBSERVATIONS ON PARTS OF THE DECLARATION OF RIGHTS, AS PROPOSED BY CITIZEN SIEYES.
• PRINCIPLES OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. (n.d.)
  • ESSAY I.: OBJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW.
  • ESSAY II.: OF SUBJECTS, OR OF THE PERSONAL EXTENT OF THE DOMINION OF THE LAWS.
  • ESSAY III.: OF WAR, CONSIDERED IN RESPECT OF ITS CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES.
  • ESSAY IV.: A PLAN FOR AN UNIVERSAL AND PERPETUAL PEACE.
  • APPENDIX.*—JUNCTIANA PROPOSAL.
• A PROTEST AGAINST LAW-TAXES, SHOWING THE PECULIAR MISCHIEVOUSNESS OF ALL SUCH IMPOSITIONS AS ADD TO THE EXPENSE OF APPEAL TO JUSTICE. (1793)
  • ADDITION by a LEARNED FRIEND.
• SUPPLY WITHOUT BURDEN; OR ESCHEAT VICE TAXATION: BEING A PROPOSAL FOR A SAVING OF TAXES BY AN EXTENSION OF THE LAW OF ESCHEAT, INCLUDING STRICTURES ON THE TAXES ON COLLATERAL SUCCESSION COMPRISED IN THE BUDGET OF 7TH DECEMBER 1795. (1793)
  • PREFACE.
  • SECTION I.: GENERAL IDEA.
  • SECTION II.: ORDER OF THE DETAILS.
  • SECTION III.: ADVANTAGES.
  • SECTION IV.: ORIGINALITY.
  • SECTION V.: PRODUCE.
  • SECTION VI.: APPLICATION.
  • SECTION VII.: HEADS OF OBJECTION, WITH ANSWERS.†
  • SECTION VIII.: EXISTING LAW.
  • SECTION IX.: ANCIENT LAW.
  • SECTION X.: BLACKSTONE.
• TAX WITH MONOPOLY; OR HINTS OF CERTAIN CASES IN WHICH, IN ALLEVIATION OF THE BURDEN OF TAXATION, EXCLUSIVE PRIVILEGES MAY BE GIVEN AS AGAINST FUTURE COMPETITORS, WITHOUT PRODUCING ANY OF THE ILL EFFECTS, WHICH IN MOST CASES ARE INSEPARABLE FROM EVERYTHING THAT SAVOURS OF MONOPOLY; EXEMPLIFIED IN THE INSTANCES OF THE STOCK-BROKING AND BANKING BUSINESSES. (n.d.)

Vol. 3 Table of Contents

• DEFENCE OF USURY; SHOWING THE IMPOLICY OF THE PRESENT LEGAL RESTRAINTS ON THE TERMS OF PECUNIARY BARGAINS; IN LETTERS TO A FRIEND. (1787)
• A MANUAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY: NOW FIRST EDITED FROM THE MSS. OF JEREMY BENTHAM. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: INTRODUCTION.*
  • CHAPTER II.: ANALYTICAL SURVEY OF THE FIELD OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
  • CHAPTER III.: OF WEALTH.
  • CHAPTER IV.: OF POPULATION.
  • CHAPTER V.: OF FINANCE.
  • CHAPTER VI.: OPERATION OF A SINKING FUND ON THE PRODUCTION OF WEALTH.
  • CHAPTER VII.: NOSCENDA.
• OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESTRICTIVE AND PROHIBITORY COMMERCIAL SYSTEM; ESPECIALLY WITH A REFERENCE TO THE DECREE OF THE SPANISH CORTES OF JULY 1820. (1821)
• A PLAN FOR SAVING ALL TROUBLE AND EXPENSE IN THE TRANSFER OF STOCK, AND FOR ENABLING THE PROPRIETORS TO RECEIVE THEIR DIVIDENDS WITHOUT POWERS OF ATTORNEY, OR ATTENDANCE AT THE BANK OF ENGLAND, BY THE CONVERSION OF STOCK INTO NOTE ANNUITIES. (n.d.)
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER I.: PLAN FOR THE CREATION, EMISSION, PAYMENT, AND EVENTUAL EXTENSION, OF A PROPOSED NEW SPECIES OF GOVERNMENT PAPER, UNDER THE NAME OF ANNUITY NOTES.
  • CHAPTER II.: FORM OF AN ANNUITY NOTE. (See Table II.)
  • CHAPTER III.: COMPARISON OF THE PROPOSED, WITH THE EXISTING GOVERNMENT SECURITIES, &C.
  • CHAPTER IV.: GROUNDS OF EXPECTATION, IN REGARD TO THE PROPOSED MEASURE.
  • CHAPTER V.: FINANCIAL ADVANTAGES.
  • CHAPTER VI.: ADVANTAGE BY ADDITION TO NATIONAL CAPITAL.
  • CHAPTER VII.: ADVANTAGE BY ADDITION TO COMMERCIAL SECURITY.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: PARTICULAR INTERESTS CONCERNED.
  • CHAPTER IX.: RISE OF PRICES—HOW TO OBVIATE.
  • CHAPTER X.: REDUCTION OF INTEREST—PROPOSED MODE COMPARED WITH MR. PELHAM'S.
  • CHAPTER XI.: MORAL ADVANTAGES.
  • CHAPTER XII.: CONSTITUTIONAL ADVANTAGES.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: RECAPITULATION AND CONCLUSION.
  • APPENDIX A.: Government ought to have the Monopoly of Paper Money, as well as of Metallic Money.
  • APPENDIX B.: Paper Money—Causes why not circulated by Government without interest, as well as by Individuals.
• GENERAL VIEW OF A COMPLETE CODE OF LAWS. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: GENERAL DIVISION.
  • CHAPTER II.: RELATIONS BETWEEN THE LAWS CONCERNING OFFENCES, RIGHTS, OBLIGATIONS, AND SERVICES.
  • CHAPTER III.: RELATION BETWEEN THE PENAL AND CIVIL CODE.
  • CHAPTER IV.: OF METHOD.
  • CHAPTER V.: PLAN OF THE PENAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER VI.: OF THE DIVISION OF OFFENCES.
  • CHAPTER VII.: ADVANTAGES OF THIS CLASSIFICATION.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: TITLES OF THE PENAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER IX.: FIRST GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE,* Of Things.
  • CHAPTER X.: SECOND GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Places.
  • CHAPTER XI.: THIRD GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Times.
  • CHAPTER XII.: FOURTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Services.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: FIFTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Obligations.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: SIXTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Rights.
  • CHAPTER XV.: SEVENTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Collative and Ablative Events.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: EIGHTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Contracts.
  • CHAPTER XVII.: NINTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of the Domestic and Civil States.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.: TENTH GENERAL TITLE OF THE CIVIL CODE. Of Persons capable of Acquiring and of Contracting.
  • CHAPTER XIX.: OF THE PARTICULAR TITLES OF THE CIVIL CODE.
  • CHAPTER XX.: OF ELEMENTARY POLITICAL POWERS.
  • CHAPTER XXI.: OF ELEMENTARY POLITICAL POWERS— Subject continued.
  • CHAPTER XXII.: PLAN OF THE POLITICAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXIII.: PLAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXIV.: PLAN OF THE MARITIME CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXV.: PLAN OF THE MILITARY CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXVI.: PLAN OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXVII.: PLAN OF REMUNERATORY LAWS.
  • CHAPTER XXVIII.: OF POLITICAL ECONOMY.
  • CHAPTER XXIX.: PLAN OF THE FINANCIAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXX.: PLAN OF PROCEDURE CODE.
  • CHAPTER XXXI.: OF THE INTEGRALITY OF THE CODE OF LAWS.
  • CHAPTER XXXII.: OF PURITY IN THE COMPOSITION OF A CODE OF LAWS.
  • CHAPTER XXXIII.: OF THE STYLE OF THE LAWS.
  • CHAPTER XXXIV.: OF THE INTERPRETATION, CONSERVATION, AND IMPROVEMENT OF A CODE.
• PANNOMIAL FRAGMENTS. (1831)
  • CHAPTER I.: GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
  • CHAPTER II.: CONSIDERANDA.
  • CHAPTER III.: EXPOSITIONS.
  • CHAPTER IV.: AXIOMS.
• NOMOGRAPHY; OR THE ART OF INDITING LAWS: NOW FIRST PUBLISHED FROM THE MSS. OF JEREMY BENTHAM. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: THE SUBJECT STATED.
  • CHAPTER II.: RELATIONS.
  • CHAPTER III.: PROPER END IN VIEW.
  • CHAPTER IV.: IMPERFECTIONS PRIMARY.
  • CHAPTER V.: EXPLANATIONS RELATIVE TO THE IMPERFECTIONS OF THE SECOND ORDER.
  • CHAPTER VI.: OF REMEDIES.*
  • CHAPTER VII.: OF LANGUAGE.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: OF THE PERFECTIONS OF WHICH THE LEGISLATIVE STYLE IS SUSCEPTIBLE.
  • CHAPTER IX.: OF FORMS OF ENACTMENT.
  • APPENDIX. LOGICAL ARRANGEMENTS, OR INSTRUMENTS OF INVENTION AND DISCOVERY
• EQUITY DISPATCH COURT PROPOSAL; CONTAINING A PLAN FOR THE SPEEDY AND UNEXPENSIVE TERMINATION OF THE SUITS NOW DEPENDING IN EQUITY COURTS. WITH THE FORM OF A PETITION, AND SOME ACCOUNT OF A PROPOSED BILL FOR THAT PURPOSE (1830)
  • SECTION I.: PURPOSE EXPLAINED. Jeremy Bentham to the honest and afflicted among Equity Suitors.
  • SECTION II.: EQUITY SUITORS' PETITION FOR DISPATCH COURT. To the King's Most Excellent Majesty,—
  • SECTION III.: DISPATCH COURT BILL—SOME ACCOUNT OF IT.
  • SECTION IV.: INFORMATION REQUISITE FROM PETITIONING SUITORS.
• EQUITY DISPATCH COURT BILL: BEING A BILL FOR THE INSTITUTION OF AN EXPERIMENTAL JUDICATORY UNDER THE NAME OF THE COURT OF DISPATCH, FOR EXEMPLIFYING IN PRACTICE THE MANNER IN WHICH THE PROPOSED SUMMARY MAY BE SUBSTITUTED TO THE SO CALLED REGULAR SYSTEM OF PROCEDURE; AND FOR CLEARING AWAY BY THE EXPERIMENT, THE ARREAR OF BUSINESS IN THE EQUITY COURTS (n.d.)
  • PREFACE.
  • PART I.—: JUDICIARY.
  • PART II.—: PROCEDURE.
• PLAN OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM, IN THE FORM OF A CATECHISM, WITH REASONS FOR EACH ARTICLE: WITH AN INTRODUCTION, SHOWING THE NECESSITY OF RADICAL, AND THE INADEQUACY OF MODERATE, REFORM. (1817)
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • SECTION I.: HISTORY OF THE ENSUING TRACT—ALARMING STATE OF THE COUNTRY AND THE CONSTITUTION.
  • SECTION II.: MOST PROMINENT PRESENT GRIEVANCE, GAREISONING FRANCE.
  • SECTION III.: CAUSES OF THE ABOVE AND ALL OTHER MISCHIEFS:—PARTICULAR INTERESTS MONARCHICAL AND ARISTOCRATICAL, ADVERSE TO THE UNIVERSAL—THEIR ASCENDENCY.
  • SECTION IV.: SOLE REMEDY IN PRINCIPLE—DEMOCRATIC ASCENDENCY.
  • SECTION V.: REMEDY IN DETAIL: RADICAL PARLIAMENTARY REFORM: ELEMENTARY ARRANGEMENTS IN THIS EDITION OF IT—THEIR NECESSITY.
  • SECTION VI.: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THIS AND THE ORIGINAL EDITIONS OF RADICAL REFORM.
  • SECTION VII.: VIRTUAL UNIVERSALITY OF SUFFRAGE FURTHER CONSIDERED.
  • SECTION VIII.: VIRTUAL UNIVERSALITY OF SUFFRAGE—ITS UNDANGEROUSNESS.
  • SECTION IX.: FREEDOM OF SUFFRAGE FURTHER EXPLAINED—SEDUCTIVE INFLUENCE—ITS FORMS, INSTRUMENTS, &C.
  • SECTION X.: BRIBERY AND TERRORISM COMPARED.
  • SECTION XI.: PURCHASE OF SEATS—IN WHAT CASES MISCHIEVOUS—IN WHAT BENEFICIAL.
  • SECTION XII.: SECRESY OF SUFFRAGE—ITS IMPORTANCE FURTHER DEVELOPED.
  • SECTION XIII.: EXCLUSION OF PLACEMEN, &C. FROM THE RIGHT OF VOTING—MISCHIEVOUSNESS AND PROFLIGACY OF THE OPPOSITE ARRANGEMENT.
  • SECTION XIV.: UNIVERSAL CONSTANCY OF ATTENDANCE—ITS IMPORTANCE.
  • SECTION XV.: REPRESENTATIVES—IMPERMANENCE OF THEIR SITUATION—ITS IMPORTANCE:—OBJECTIONS—THEIR GROUNDLESSNESS.
  • SECTION XVI.: MODERATE REFORM—ITS ARRANGEMENTS—THEIR INADEQUACY.
  • SECTION XVII.: TRIENNIALITY INADEQUATE;—ANNUALITY NECESSARY.
  • SECTION XVIII.: INTERESTS ADVERSE TO ADEQUATE REFORM—SUPPORT GIVEN BY THEM TO MODERATE, TO THE EXCLUSION OF RADICAL: TORIES—WHIGS—PEOPLE'S MEN.
  • CATECHISM OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM; OR, OUTLINE OF A PLAN OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM; IN THE FORM OF QUESTION AND ANSWER; WITH REASONS TO EACH ARTICLE.
• A SKETCH OF THE VARIOUS PROPOSALS FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE PEOPLE, INTRODUCED INTO THE PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN, FROM 1770 TO 1812. (n.d.)
• RADICAL REFORM BILL, WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE REASONS. (1819)
  • TITLE OF THE PROPOSED ACT.
  • PREAMBLE.
  • APPENDIX, INCLUDING GENERAL EXPLANATIONS.
• RADICALISM NOT DANGEROUS. EXTRACTED FROM THE MSS. OF JEREMY BENTHAM.* (c. 1820)
  • PART I.—: INTRODUCTION.
  • PART II.—: DEFERENCE FROM THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE CASE.
  • PART III.—: DEFENCE FROM EXPERIENCE IN THE CASE OF THE UNITED STATES.
  • CONCLUSION.

Vol. 4 Table of Contents

• A VIEW OF THE HARD-LABOUR BILL; BEING AN ABSTRACT OF A PAMPHLET, INTITULED, "DRAUGHT OF A BILL, TO PUNISH BY IMPRISONMENT AND HARD LABOUR, CERTAIN OFFENDERS; AND TO ESTABLISH PROPER PLACES FOR THEIR RECEPTION:" INTERSPERSED WITH OBSERVATIONS RELATIVE TO THE SUBJECT OF THE ABOVE DRAUGHT IN PARTICULAR, AND TO PENAL JURISPRUDENCE IN GENERAL. (1778)
• PANOPTICON; OR, THE INSPECTION-HOUSE: CONTAINING THE IDEA OF A NEW PRINCIPLE OF CONSTRUCTION APPLICABLE TO ANY SORT OF ESTABLISHMENT, IN WHICH PERSONS OF ANY DESCRIPTION ARE TO BE KEPT UNDER INSPECTION; AND IN PARTICULAR TO PENITENTIARY-HOUSES, (1787)
  • BUILDING AND FURNITURE FOR AN INDUSTRY-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT, FOR 2000 PERSONS, OF ALL AGES, ON THE PANOPTICON OR CENTRAL-INSPECTION PRINCIPLE.
  • PREFACE.
  • POSTSCRIPT, PART I. CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS AND ALTERATIONS RELATIVE TO THE PLAN OF CONSTRUCTION ORIGINALLY PROPOSED; PRINCIPALLY ADAPTED TO THE PURPOSE OF A PANOPTICON PENITENTIARY-HOUSE.*
  • POSTSCRIPT—PART II. PRINCIPLES AND PLAN OF MANAGEMENT.
  • The following Note respecting this Work was given by Bentham to Dr. Bowring, 24th January 1821.
• PANOPTICON versus NEW SOUTH WALES: OR, THE PANOPTICON PENITENTIARY SYSTEM, AND THE PENAL COLONIZATION SYSTEM, COMPARED. (1812)
  • SECOND LETTER TO LORD PELHAM, &c. &c. &c. IN CONTINUATION OF THE COMPARATIVE VIEW OF THE SYSTEM OF PENAL COLONIZATION IN NEW SOUTH WALES, AND THE HOME PENITENTIARY SYSTEM, PRESCRIBED BY TWO ACTS OF PARLIAMENT OF THE YEARS 1794 AND 1799.
• A PLEA FOR THE CONSTITUTION: SHEWING THE ENORMITIES COMMITTED, TO THE OPPRESSION OF BRITISH SUBJECTS, INNOCENT AS WELL AS GUILTY; (1802)
• DRAUGHT OF A CODE FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF THE JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENT IN FRANCE: WITH CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON THE DRAUGHT PROPOSED BY THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE, IN THE FORM OF A PERPETUAL COMMENTARY. (1790)
• BENTHAM'S DRAUGHT FOR THE ORGANIZATION OF JUDICIAL ESTABLISHMENTS, COMPARED WITH THAT OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, WITH A COMMENTARY ON THE SAME. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.
  • CHAPTER II.
  • CHAPTER III.
  • CHAPTER IV.
  • CHAPTER V.
  • CHAPTER VI.
  • CHAPTER VII.
  • CHAPTER VIII.
• EMANCIPATE YOUR COLONIES! ADDRESSED TO THE NATIONAL CONVENTION OF FRANCE, ANNO 1793. (1830)
• JEREMY BENTHAM TO HIS FELLOW-CITIZENS OF FRANCE, ON HOUSES OF PEERS AND SENATES. (1830)
• PAPERS RELATIVE TO CODIFICATION AND PUBLIC INSTRUCTION: INCLUDING CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE RUSSIAN EMPEROR, AND DIVERS CONSTITUTED AUTHORITIES IN THE AMERICAN UNITED STATES. (1811-17)
  • PART I.—: ON CODIFICATION.
  • PART II.: PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
• CODIFICATION PROPOSAL, ADDRESSED BY JEREMY BENTHAM TO ALL NATIONS PROFESSING LIBERAL OPINIONS; OR IDEA OF A PROPOSED ALL-COMPREHENSIVE BODY OF LAW, WITH AN ACCOMPANIMENT OF REASONS, APPLYING ALL ALONG TO THE SEVERAL PROPOSED ARRANGEMENTS: (1822)
  • PART I.—ARGUMENTS.
  • PART II.—TESTIMONIALS.

Vol. 5 Table of Contents

• SCOTCH REFORM; CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO THE PLAN PROPOSED IN THE LATE PARLIAMENT, FOR THE REGULATION OF THE COURTS AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND: WITH ILLUSTRATIONS FROM ENGLISH NON-REFORM: IN THE COURSE OF WHICH, DIVERS IMPERFECTIONS, ABUSES, AND CORRUPTIONS, IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE, WITH THEIR CAUSES, ARE NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, BROUGHT TO LIGHT. (1808)
• SUMMARY VIEW OF THE PLAN OF A JUDICATORY, UNDER THE NAME OF THE COURT OF LORDS' DELEGATES, Proposed for the Exercise of those Judicial Functions, the adequate Discharge of which by the whole House has, for these six or seven Years, been rendered confessedly impracticable, by want of Time. (1808)
• THE ELEMENTS of THE ART OF PACKING, as applied to SPECIAL JURIES, particularly IN CASES OF LIBEL LAW. (1821)
  • PART I.
  • PART II.: STATE OF THE PACKING SYSTEM, ANNO 1808.
  • PART III.: STATE OF THE PACKING SYSTEM, ANNO 1809.
  • PART IV.—: REMEDIES PROPOSED.*
• "SWEAR NOT AT ALL:" containing an EXPOSURE OF THE NEEDLESSNESS AND MISCHIEVOUSNESS, as well as ANTI-CHRISTIANITY of the CEREMONY OF AN OATH: a view of THE PARLIAMENTARY RECOGNITION OF ITS NEEDLESSNESS, IMPLIED IN THE PRACTICE OF BOTH HOUSES; and an INDICATION OF THE UNEXCEPTIONABLE SECURITIES, BY WHICH WHATSOEVER PRACTICAL GOOD PURPOSES THE CEREMONY HAS BEEN EMPLOYED TO SERVE, WOULD BE MORE EFFECTUALLY PROVIDED FOR. together with PROOF OF THE OPEN AND PERSEVERING CONTEMPT OF MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE, PERPETUATED BY IT, AND RENDERED UNIVERSAL, in the TWO CHURCH-OF-ENGLAND UNIVERSITIES, more especially in THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. (Pre-detached from an Introduction to the "Rationale of Evidence.") (1817)
• TRUTH versus ASHHURST; or, LAW AS IT IS, CONTRASTED WITH WHAT IT IS SAID TO BE. (1792)
• THE KING against EDMONDS AND OTHERS: SET DOWN FOR TRIAL, AT WARWICK, ON THE 29th OF MARCH 1820. (1820)
• THE KING AGAINST SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY, BARONET, AND JOSEPH HARRISON, SCHOOLMASTER, SET DOWN FOR TRIAL, AT CHESTER, ON THE 4th OF APRIL 1820. (1820)
• OFFICIAL APTITUDE MAXIMIZED; EXPENSE MINIMIZED: AS SHOWN IN THE SEVERAL PAPERS COMPRISED IN THIS VOLUME. (n.d.)
  • PAPER I.—: PREFACE.
  • PAPER II.—: INTRODUCTORY VIEW, &c.
  • PAPER III.—: EXTRACT FROM THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CODE; ENTITLED, OFFICIAL APTITUDE MAXIMIZED—EXPENSE MINIMIZED. BY JEREMY BENTHAM, ESQ. BENCHER OF LINCOLN'S INN.
  • PAPER IV.—: SUPPLEMENT TO THE ABOVE EXTRACT.
  • PAPER V.—: DEFENCE OF ECONOMY AGAINST THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE.
  • PAPER VI.—: DEFENCE OF ECONOMY AGAINST THE RIGHT HONOURABLE GEORGE ROSE.
  • PAPER VII.: OBSERVATIONS ON MR. SECRETARY PEEL'S HOUSE OF COMMONS SPEECH, 21st MARCH 1825, INTRODUCING HIS POLICE MAGISTRATES' SALARY RAISING BILL, (Date of Order for Printing, 24th March 1825.)
  • PAPER VIII.: INDICATIONS RESPECTING LORD ELDON, INCLUDING HISTORY OF THE PENDING JUDGES'-SALARY-RAISING MEASURE.
  • PAPER IX.—: ON THE MILITIA.
  • PAPER X.: ON PUBLIC ACCOUNT KEEPING.
  • PAPER XI.: CONSTITUTIONAL CODE—TABLE OF CONTENTS AS SHOWN BY TITLES OF CHAPTER AND SECTIONS.
• COMMENTARY ON MR. HUMPHREYS' REAL PROPERTY CODE, BY JEREMY BENTHAM. FROM THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No. XII., FOR OCTOBER 1826.(1826)
• OUTLINE OF A PLAN OF A GENERAL REGISTER OF REAL PROPERTY: CONTAINED IN A Communication to the Commissioners appointed under Letters Patent, of date the 6th June 1828, to inquire into the Law of England respecting Real Property, and first printed in the Appendix to their Third Report, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 24th May 1832. (1832)
• JUSTICE AND CODIFICATION PETITIONS: BEING FORMS PROPOSED FOR SIGNATURE BY ALL PERSONS WHOSE DESIRE IT IS TO SEE JUSTICE NO LONGER SOLD, DELAYED, OR DENIED: AND TO OBTAIN A POSSIBILITY OF THAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW, IN PROPORTION TO THE WANT OF WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO UNJUST PUNISHMENTS, AND DEPRIVED OF THE BENEFIT OF THEIR RIGHTS. (n.d.)
  • ADVERTISEMENT.
  • PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS NECESSARY TO BE FIRST READ.
  • PETITION FOR JUSTICE.
  • ABRIDGED PETITION FOR JUSTICE.
  • MORE ABRIDGED PETITION FOR JUSTICE.
  • SUPPLEMENT, WHICH MAY BE ADDED OR NOT TO ANY ONE OF THE THREE OR ANY OTHER PROPOSED PETITION.
  • PETITION FOR CODIFICATION.
• LORD BROUGHAM DISPLAYED: INCLUDING I. BOA CONSTRICTOR, alias HELLUO CURIARUM; II. OBSERVATIONS ON THE BANKRUPTCY COURT BILL, NOW RIPENED INTO AN ACT; III. EXTRACTS FROM PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL CODE. (n.d.)
  • I.: BOA CONSTRICTOR, alias HELLUO CURIARUM: OBSERVATIONS ON THE "RESOLVED-ON" ABSORPTION OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, AND THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS' COURT, INTO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
  • II.: OBSERVATIONS ON THE BANKRUPTCY COURT BILL.
  • POSTSCRIPT.

Vol. 6 Table of Contents

• AN INTRODUCTORY VIEW OF THE RATIONALE OF EVIDENCE; FOR THE USE OF NON-LAWYERS AS WELL AS LAWYERS. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: TITLE-PAGE JUSTIFIED.
  • CHAPTER II.: RELATION OF LAW TO HAPPINESS—OF PROCEDURE TO THE MAIN BODY OF THE LAW—OF EVIDENCE TO PROCEDURE.
  • CHAPTER III.: ENDS OF JUSTICE ON THE OCCASION OF JUDICATURE.*
  • CHAPTER IV.: DUTIES OF THE LEGISLATOR IN RELATION TO EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER V.: PROBATIVE FORCE—WHENCE MEASURED—HOW INCREASED—HOW DIMINISHED.
  • CHAPTER VI.: DEGREES OF PERSUASION—THENCE OF PROBATIVE FORCE—HOW EXPRESSIBLE.
  • CHAPTER VII.: CAUSES OF TRUSTWORTHINESS AND UNTRUSTWORTHINESS IN TESTIMONY—THENCE OF BELIEF AND UNBELIEF.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: OF THE SECURITIES FOR TRUSTWORTHINESS IN EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER IX.: FALSE SECURITIES FOR TRUSTWORTHINESS IN EVIDENCE—OATHS AND EXCLUSIONS.
  • CHAPTER X.: OF THE RECEPTION AND EXTRACTION OF EVIDENCE, viz. WITH THE HELP OF THE ABOVE SECURITIES.
  • CHAPTER XI.: COLLECTION OF EVIDENCE—ENGLISH PRACTICE.
  • CHAPTER XII.: OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: OF MAKE-SHIFT EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XV.: DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PREAPPOINTED AND UNPREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: PREAPPOINTED OFFICIAL EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XVII.: EXTEMPORE RECORDATION, HOW APPLICABLE TO LEGALLY OPERATIVE FACTS AT LARGE.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.: OF DERIVATIVE, INCLUDING TRANSCRIPTIOUS, RECORDATION, WHEREIN OF REGISTRATION.
  • CHAPTER XIX.: EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE.—GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS.
  • CHAPTER XX.: EXCLUSION CONTINUED—CAUSES FOR WHICH IT IS PROPER OR NOT, ACCORDING TO CIRCUMSTANCES.
  • CHAPTER XXI.: EXCLUSION CONTINUED—CAUSES FOR WHICH IT CANNOT BE PROPER.
  • CHAPTER XXII.: EXCLUSIONS BY ENGLISH AND OTHER LAWS—ANALYTIC AND SYNOPTIC SKETCHES.
  • CHAPTER XXIII.: SAFEGUARDS AGAINST SUSPICIOUS EVIDENCE: INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE WEIGHING OF EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XXIV.: AUTHENTICATION AND DEAUTHENTICATION, AS APPLIED TO PREAPPOINTED AND OTHER WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XXV.: EXCLUSION AND NULLIFICATION APPLIED TO CONTRACTUAL MATTER, IN SO FAR AS WRITING HAS BEEN OMITTED TO BE EMPLOYED IN GIVING EXPRESSION TO IT.
  • CHAPTER XXVI.: OF THE EXCLUSION AND NULLIFICATION OF CONTRACTUAL MATTER, INFORMALLY THOUGH SCRIPTITIOUSLY EXPRESSED, IN A TRANSACTION WHICH HAS BEEN THE SUBJECT OF MATTER FORMALLY EXPRESSED.
  • CHAPTER XXVII.: IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT:—DISGUISED EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE INVOLVED IN IT.
  • CHAPTER XXIX.: EVIDENCE CONSIDERED IN ITS RELATION TO THIS OR THAT FACT IN PARTICULAR—WHY DISCARDED FROM THIS WORK.
  • CHAPTER XXX.: EVIDENCE IN RELATION TO PARTICULAR FACTS AND PLEADINGS UNDER TECHNICAL PROCLDURE.
  • CHAPTER XXXI.: FALSE THEORY OF EVIDENCE (GILBERT'S*)—ITS FOUNDATION:—PRECEDENCE GIVEN TO WRITTEN BEFORE UNWRITTEN.
  • CHAPTER XXXII.: LIBERALISTS AND RIGORISTS—PARTIES BELLIGERENT IN THE FIELD OF JURISPRUDENCE, AND IN PARTICULAR OF EVIDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XXXIII.: CONCLUSION.
  • APPENDIX A.: CAUTIONARY INSTRUCTIONS RESPECTING EVIDENCE, FOR THE USE OF JUDGES.
  • APPENDIX B.: OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.
• RATIONALE OF JUDICIAL EVIDENCE, SPECIALLY APPLIED TO ENGLISH PRACTICE. FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM, BENCHER OF LINCOLN'S INN. (1827)
  • PREFACE.
  • PROSPECTIVE VIEW.
  • BOOK I.: —THEORETIC GROUNDS.
    • CHAPTER I.: ON EVIDENCE IN GENERAL.
    • CHAPTER II.: OF EVIDENCE CONSIDERED WITH REFERENCE TO A LEGAL PURPOSE; AND OF THE DUTIES OF THE LEGISLATOR IN RELATION TO EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER III.: OF FACTS—THE SUBJECT-MATTER OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF THE SEVERAL SPECIES OR MODIFICATIONS OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF THE PROBATIVE FORCE OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER VI.: DEGREES OF PERSUASION AND PROBATIVE FORCE, HOW MEASURED.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF THE FOUNDATION OR CAUSE OF BELIEF IN TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: MODES OF INCORRECTNESS IN TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER IX.: GENERAL VIEW OF THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF CORRECTNESS AND COMPLETENESS, WITH THEIR CONTRARIES, INCORRECTNESS AND INCOMPLETENESS, IN TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER X.: OF THE INTELLECTUAL CAUSES OF CORRECTNESS AND COMPLETENESS IN TESTIMONY, WITH THEIR OPPOSITES.
    • CHAPTER XI.: OF THE MORAL CAUSES OF CORRECTNESS AND COMPLETENESS IN TESTIMONY, WITH THEIR OPPOSITES.
    • CHAPTER XII.: GROUND OF PERSUASION IN THE CASE OF THE JUDGE—CAN DECISION ON HIS OWN KNOWLEDGE, WITHOUT EVIDENCE FROM EXTERNAL SOURCES, BE WELL GROUNDED?
  • BOOK II.: —ON THE SECURITIES FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER I.: OBJECT OF THE PRESENT BOOK.
    • CHAPTER II.: DANGERS TO BE GUARDED AGAINST, IN REGARD TO TESTIMONY, BY THE ARRANGEMENTS SUGGESTED IN THIS BOOK.
    • CHAPTER III.: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL SECURITIES FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY ENUMERATED.
    • CHAPTER IV.: ON THE INTERNAL SECURITIES FOR TRUSTWORTHINESS IN TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF PUNISHMENT, CONSIDERED AS A SECURITY FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER VI.: OF THE CEREMONY OF AN OATH, CONSIDERED AS A SECURITY FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF SHAME, CONSIDERED AS A SECURITY FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: OF WRITING, CONSIDERED AS A SECURITY FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER IX.: OF INTERROGATION, CONSIDERED AS A SECURITY FOR THE TRUSTWORTHINESS OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER X.: OF PUBLICITY AND PRIVACY, AS APPLIED TO JUDICATURE IN GENERAL, AND TO THE COLLECTION OF THE EVIDENCE IN PARTICULAR.
    • ADDITIONAL NOTES TO BOOKS I. II. CHIEFLY WITH REFERENCE TO ALTERATIONS MADE IN THE LAW SINCE THE DATE OF THE FIRST EDITION,—viz. 1827.
  • BOOK III.: OF THE EXTRACTION OF TESTIMONIAL EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER I.: OF THE ORAL MODE OF INTERROGATION.
    • CHAPTER II.: NOTES, WHETHER CONSULTABLE?
    • CHAPTER III.: OF SUGGESTIVE INTERROGATION.
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF DISCREDITIVE INTERROGATION.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF THE DEMEANOUR OF THE ADVERSE INTERROGATOR TO THE WITNESS, CONSIDERED IN RESPECT OF VEXATION.
    • CHAPTER VI.: OF THE NOTATION AND RECORDATION OF TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER VII.: THAT THE EVIDENCE SHOULD BE COLLECTED BY THE SAME PERSON BY WHOM THE DECISION IS TO BE PRONOUNCED.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: FIVE MODES OF INTERROGATION COMPARED.
    • CHAPTER IX.: EPISTOLARY MODE OF INTERROGATION, IN WHAT CASES APPLICABLE.
    • CHAPTER X.: EPISTOLARY MODE OF INTERROGATION, HOW TO APPLY IT TO THE BEST ADVANTAGE.
    • CHAPTER XI.: HELPS TO RECOLLECTION, HOW FAR COMPATIBLE WITH OBSTRUCTIONS TO INVENTION?
    • CHAPTER XII.: OF RE-EXAMINATION, REPETITION, OR RECOLEMENT.
    • CHAPTER XIII.: OF SPONTANEOUS OR UNINTERROGATED TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER XIV.: GENERAL VIEW OF THE INCONGRUITIES OF ENGLISH LAW IN RESPECT OF THE EXTRACTION OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER XV.: MODE OF EXTRACTION IN ENGLISH COMMON-LAW PROCEDURE—ITS INCONGRUITIES.
    • CHAPTER XVI.: MODE OF EXTRACTION IN ENGLISH EQUITY PROCEDURE—ITS INCONGRUITIES.
    • CHAPTER XVII.: MODE OF EXTRACTION IN ENGLISH ECCLESIASTICAL AND ADMIRALTY COURTS—ITS INCONGRUITIES.
    • CHAPTER XVIII.: INCONGRUITIES OF ROMAN LAW IN RESPECT OF THE EXTRACTION OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER XIX.: OF CONFRONTATION UNDER THE ROMAN LAW.
    • CHAPTER XX.: RECAPITULATION.
  • BOOK IV.: OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER I.: OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE IN GENERAL.
    • CHAPTER II.: OF INSTRUMENTS OF CONTRACT IN GENERAL.
    • CHAPTER III.: OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF FORMALITIES IN THE CASE OF CONTRACTS.
    • CHAPTER IV.: FORMALITIES, WHAT PROPER, AND IN WHAT CASES?
    • CHAPTER V.: OF WILLS, AS DISTINGUISHED FROM OTHER CONTRACTS.
    • CHAPTER VI.: OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE, CONSIDERED AS APPLIED TO LAWS.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF PUBLIC OFFICES AT LARGE, CONSIDERED AS REPOSITORIES AND SOURCES OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE.*
    • CHAPTER VIII.: OF OFFICIAL EVIDENCE, AS FURNISHED BY JUDICIAL OFFICES.
    • CHAPTER IX.: OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE, CONSIDERED AS APPLIED TO LEGALLY-OPERATIVE FACTS AT LARGE.
    • CHAPTER X.: OF THE REGISTRATION OF GENEALOGICAL FACTS, VIZ. DEATHS, BIRTHS, AND MARRIAGES.
    • CHAPTER XI.: OF OFFICES FOR CONSERVATION OF TRANSCRIPTS OF CONTRACTS.*
    • CHAPTER XII.: OF THE PRINCIPLE OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE CASE OF REAL EVIDENCE (EVIDENCE FROM THINGS.)

Vol. 7 Table of Contents

• RATIONALE OF JUDICIAL EVIDENCE. (1827)
  • BOOK V.: —OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER I.: CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE, WHAT—HOW DISTINGUISHED FROM DIRECT EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER II.: OF PROBABILIZING, DISPROBABILIZING, AND INFIRMATIVE FACTS—EXAMPLES OF PRINCIPAL FACTS, WITH THE CORRESPONDING EVIDENTIARY FACTS—IMPROBABILITY AND IMPOSSIBILITY, HOW DISTINGUISHED FROM THE OTHER KINDS OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER III.: OF REAL EVIDENCE, OR EVIDENCE FROM THINGS.
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF PREPARATIONS, ATTEMPTS, DECLARATIONS OF INTENTION, AND THRLATS, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF NON-RESPONSION, AND FALSE, OR EVASIVE RESPONSION, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER VI.: OF SPONTANEOUS* SELF-INCULPATIVE TESTIMONY, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF CONFESSORIAL AND OTHERWISE SELF-DISSERVING EVIDENCE, EXTRACTED BY INTERROGATION.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: OF CONFUSION OF MIND, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER IX.: OF FEAR, IN SO FAR AS INDICATED BY PASSIVE DEPORTMENT, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER X.: OF CLANDESTINITY, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER XI.: OF SUPPRESSION OR FABRICATION OF EVIDENCE, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUFNCY.
    • CHAPTER XII.: OF AVOIDANCE OF JUSTICIABILITY, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER XIII.: OF THE SITUATION OF THE SUPPOSED DELINQUENT IN RESPECT OF MOTIVES, MEANS, DISPOSITION, CHARACTER, AND STATION IN LIFE, CONSIDERED AS AFFORDING EVIDENCE OF DELINQUENCY.
    • CHAPTER XIV.: POSTERIORA PRIORUM—PRIORA POSTERIORUM. FACT INDICATED, A PRIOR EVENT; EVIDENTIARY FACT, A POSTERIOR EVENT IN THE SAME SERIES: AND E CONVERSO.
    • CHAPTER XV.: ON THE PROBATIVE FORCE OF CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER XVI.: OF IMPROBABILITY AND IMPOSSIBILITY.*
    • CHAPTER XVII.: ATROCITY OF AN ALLEGED OFFENCE, HOW FAR A GROUND OF INCREDIBILITY.‡
  • BOOK VI: OF MAKESHIFT EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER I.: OF MAKESHIFT EVIDENCE IN GENERAL.
    • CHAPTER II.: OF EXTRAJUDICIALLY WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER III.: OF UNORIGINAL EVIDENCE IN GENERAL.
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF SUPPOSED ORAL EVIDENCE TRANSMITTED THROUGH ORAL, OR HEARSAY EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER V.: INSTRUCTIONS CONCERNING THE PROBATIVE FORCE OF EXTRAJUDICIALLY WRITTEN AND HEARSAY EVIDENCE.*
    • CHAPTER VI.: OF SUPPOSED WRITTEN EVIDENCE, TRANSMITTED THROUGH ORAL; OR MEMORITER EVIDENCE.*
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF SUPPOSED ORAL EVIDENCE, TRANSMITTED THROUGH WRITTEN; OR MINUTED EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: OF SUPPOSED WRITTEN EVIDENCE, TRANSMITTED THROUGH WRITTEN; OR TRANSCRIPTITIOUS EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER IX.: OF REPORTED REAL EVIDENCE: i. e. SUPPOSED REAL EVIDENCE, TRANSMITTED THROUGH ORAL JUDICIAL TESTIMONY, OR THROUGH CASUALLY-WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER X.: OF EVIDENCE TRANSMITTED THROUGH AN INDEFINITE NUMBER OF MEDIA.
    • CHAPTER XI.: WHAT OUGHT, AND WHAT OUGHT NOT, TO BE DONE, TO OBVIATE THE DANGER OF MISDECISION ON THE GROUND OF MAKESHIFT EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER XII.: ABERRATIONS OF ENGLISH LAW IN REGARD TO MAKESHIFT EVIDENCE.
  • BOOK VII.: OF THE AUTHENTICATION OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER I.: AUTHENTICATION, WHAT. CONNEXION OF THIS SUBJECT WITH THAT OF PREAPPOINTED EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER II.: SUBJECT-MATTERS OF AUTHENTICATION, WHAT. MODES OF AUTHENTICATION IN THE CASE OF REAL AND OF ORAL EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER III.: MODES OF AUTHENTICATION IN THE CASE OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER IV.: MODES OF DEAUTHENTICATION IN THE CASE OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER V.: DISTINCTION BETWEEN PROVISIONAL AND DEFINITIVE AUTHENTICATION. RULES FOR THE LEGISLATOR AND THE JUDGE, CONCERNING THE AUTHENTICATION OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER VI.: ABERRATIONS OF ENGLISH LAW IN REGARD TO THE AUTHENTICATION OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE.
  • BOOK VIII.: ON THE CAUSE OF EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE—THE TECHNICAL SYSTEM OF PROCEDURE.
    • CHAPTER I.: OBJECT OF THIS INQUIRY—ITS CONNEXION WITH THE SUBJECT OF THE PRESENT WORK.
    • CHAPTER II.: TECHNICAL OR FEE-GATHERING, AND NATURAL OR DOMESTIC, SYSTEMS OF PROCEDURE, WHAT?
    • CHAPTER III.: CAUSE OF THE VICES OF TECHNICAL PROCEDURE, THE SINISTER INTEREST OF THE JUDGE.
    • CHAPTER IV.: PARTICULAR EXEMPLIFICATIONS OF THE VICES INTRODUCED BY THE FEE-GATHERING PRINCIPLE INTO TECHNICAL JUDICATURE.
    • CHAPTER V.: LIST OF THE DEVICES EMPLOYED UNDER THE FEE-GATHERING SYSTEM, FOR PROMOTING THE ENDS OF ESTABLISHED JUDICATURE, AT THE EXPENSE OF THE ENDS OF JUSTICE.*
    • CHAPTER VI.: FIRST DEVICE—EXCLUSION OF THE PARTIES FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE JUDGE.
    • CHAPTER VII.: SECOND DEVICE—TRIBUNALS OUT OF REACH: OR, SWALLOWING UP THE INFERIOR COURTS.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: THIRD DEVICE—BANDYING THE CAUSE FROM COURT TO COURT.
    • CHAPTER IX.: FOURTH DEVICE—BLIND FIXATION OF TIMES FOR THE OPLRATIONS OF PROCEDURE.
    • CHAPTER X.: FIFTH DEVICE—SITTING AT LONG INTERVALS.
    • CHAPTER XI.: SIXTH DEVICE—MOTION BUSINESS.
    • CHAPTER XII.: SEVENTH DEVICE,—DECISION WITHOUT THOUGHT; OR MECHANICAL JUDICATURE.
    • CHAPTER XIII.: EIGHTH DEVICE—CHICANERIES ABOUT NOTICE.
    • CHAPTER XIV.: NINTH DEVICE—PRINCIPLL OF NULLIFICATION.
    • CHAPTER XV.: TENTH DEVICE—MENDACITY-LICENCE.
    • CHAPTER XVI.: ELEVENTH DEVICE—READY WRITTEN PLEADINGS.
    • CHAPTER XVII.: TWELFTH DEVICE—PRINCIPLE OF JARGON, OR JARGONIZATION.
    • CHAPTER XVIII.: THIRTEENTH DEVICE—FICTION.
    • CHAPTER XIX.: FOURTEENTH DEVICE—ENTANGLEMENT OF JURISDICTIONS.
    • CHAPTER XX.: FIFTEENTH DEVICE—MEANS OF SECURING FORTHCOMINGNESS, USELESSLY DIVFRSIFIED.
    • CHAPTER XXI.: SIXTEENTH DEVICE—CREATION OF NEEDLESS AND USELESS OFFICES.
    • CHAPTER XXII.: SEVENTEENTH DEVICE—SHAM PECUNIARY CHECKS TO DELAY, VEXATION, AND EXPENSE.
    • CHAPTER XXIII.: EIGHTEENTH DEVICE—DOUBLE-FOUNTAIN PRINCIPLE.
    • CHAPTER XXIV.: NINETEENTH DEVICE—LAUDATION OF JURISPRUDENTIAL LAW.
    • CHAPTER XXV.: HABITUAL CONTEMPT SHOWN BY JUDGES TO THE AUTHORITY OF THE LEGISLATURE.
    • CHAPTER XXVI.: OPINION-TRADE.
    • CHAPTER XXVII.: EXTENSION OF THE ABOVE DEVICES TO SUBSTANTIVE LAW, AS FAR AS APPLICABLE.
    • CHAPTER XXVIII.: REMEDIES SUGGESTED FOR THE ABOVE EVILS.
    • CHAPTER XXIX.: APOLOGY FOR THE ABOVE EXPOSURE.
  • BOOK IX.: ON EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE.
    • PART I.: ON THE EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM IN GENERAL.
      • CHAPTER I.: EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE. ITS CONNEXION WITH THE ENDS OF JUSTICE.
      • CHAPTER II.: DISREGARD SHOWN TO THE ENDS OF JUSTICE UNDER THE EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM.
      • CHAPTER III.: GENERAL VIEW OF THE MISCHIEFS OF THE EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM.
      • CHAPTER IV.: DICTA OF JUDGES ON THE EXCLUSIONARY SYSTEM.
      • CHAPTER V.: SPECIES OF EXCLUSION.
    • PART II.: VIEW OF THE CASES IN WHICH EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE IS PROPER.
    • CHAPTER I.: GENERAL VIEW OF THE CASES IN WHICH EXCLUSION IS PROPER.
      • CHAPTER II.: EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF VEXATION, IN WHAT CASES PROPER.
      • CHAPTER III.: EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF EXPENSE, IN WHAT CASES PROPER.
      • CHAPTER IV.: EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF DELAY, IN WHAT CASES PROPER.
      • CHAPTER V.: EXCLUSION OF IRRELEVANT EVIDENCE, PROPER.
      • CHAPTER VI.: EXCLUSION OF THE EVIDENCE OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST, RESPECTING THE CONFESSIONS INTRUSTED TO HIM, PROPER.
      • CHAPTER VII.: REMEDIES SUCCEDANEOUS TO THE EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE.
    • PART III.: VIEW OF THE CASES IN WHICH EVIDENCE HAS IMPROPERLY BEEN EXCLUDED ON THE GROUND OF DANGER OF DECEPTION.*
      • CHAPTER I.: CASES ENUMERATED.
      • CHAPTER II.: DANGER OF DECEPTION, NOT A PROPER GROUND FOR EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE.
      • CHAPTER III.: IMPROPRIETY OF EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF INTEREST.
      • CHAPTER IV.: IMPROPRIETY OF EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF IMPROBITY.
      • CHAPTER V.: IMPROPRIETY OF EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS.
      • CHAPTER VI.: IMPROPRIETY OF EXCLUSION ON THE GROUND OF MLNTAL IMBECILITY, AND PARTICULARLY OF INFANCY AND SUPERANNUATION.
      • CHAPTER VII.: OF THE RESTORATIVES FOR COMPETENCY, DEVISED BY ENGLISH LAWYERS.
    • PART IV.: VIEW OF THE CASES IN WHICH EVIDENCE HAS IMPROPERLY BEEN EXCLUDED ON THE GROUND OF VEXATION.
      • CHAPTER I.: VEXATION TO INDIVIDUALS ARISING SOLELY OUT OF THE EXECUTION OF THE LAWS, NOT A PROPER GROUND OF EXCLUSION.
      • CHAPTER II.: ENUMERATION OF THE SORTS OF EVIDENCE IMPROPERLY EXCLUDED ON THIS GROUND BY ENGLISH LAW.
      • CHAPTER III.: IMPROPRIETY OF THE EXCLUSION PUT UPON SELF-DISSERVING EVIDENCE BY ENGLISH LAW.
      • CHAPTER IV.: INCONSISTENCIES OF ENGLISH LAW IN REGARD TO SELF-DISSERVING EVIDENCE.
      • CHAPTER V.: EXAMINATION OF THE CASES IN WHICH ENGLISH LAW EXEMPTS ONE PERSON FROM GIVING EVIDENCE AGAINST ANOTHER.
    • PART V.: VIEW OF THE CASES IN WHICH EVIDENCE HAS IMPROPERLY BEEN EXCLUDED ON THE DOUBLE ACCOUNT OF VEXATION AND DANGER OF DECEPTION.
      • CHAPTER I.: IMPROPRIETY OF EXCLUDING THE TESTIMONY OF A PARTY TO THE CAUSE, FOR OR AGAINST HIMSELF.
      • CHAPTER II.: EXAMINATION OF THE COURSE PURSUED IN REGARD TO THE PLAINTIFF'S TESTIMONY BY ENGLISH LAW.
      • CHAPTER III.: EXAMINATION OF THE COURSE PURSUED IN REGARD TO THE DEFENDANT'S TESTIMONY BY ENGLISH LAW.
      • CHAPTER IV.: IMPROPRIETY OF EXCLUDING THE TESTIMONY OF A PARTY TO THE CAUSE, FOR OR AGAINST ANOTHER PARTY ON THE SAME SIDE. EXAMINATION OF THE COURSE PURSUED IN THIS RESPECT BY ENGLISH LAW.
      • CHAPTER V.: PROBABLE ORIGIN OF THE ABOVE EXCLUSIONARY RULES.
    • PART VI.: OF DISGUISED EXCLUSIONS.
      • CHAPTER I.: EXCLUSION OF EVIDENCE FOR WANT OF MULTIPLICITY.
      • CHAPTER II.: EXCLUSION BY LIMITATION PUT UPON THE NUMBER OF WITNESSES.
      • CHAPTER III.: EXCLUSION PUT BY BLIND ARRANGEMENTS OF PROCEDURE UPON INDETERMINATE PORTIONS OF THE MASS OF EVIDENCE.
      • CHAPTER IV.: EXCLUSION BY RENDERING A PARTICULAR SPECIES OF EVIDENCE CONCLUSIVE.
      • CHAPTER V.: OF THE RULE, THAT EVIDENCE IS TO BE CONFINED TO THE POINTS IN ISSUE.‡
      • CHAPTER VI.: OF NEGATIVE EXCLUSIONS.
  • BOOK X.: INSTRUCTIONS TO BE DELIVERED FROM THE LEGISLATOR TO THE JUDGE, FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE PROBATIVE FORCE OF EVIDENCE.
    • CHAPTER I.: PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS.
    • CHAPTER II.: OF INTEREST IN GENERAL, CONSIDERED AS A GROUND OF UNTRUSTWORTHINESS IN TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER III.: OF PECUNIARY INTEREST, CONSIDERED AS A GROUND OF UNTRUSTWORTHINESS IN TESTIMONY.*
    • CHAPTER IV.: OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM SOCIAL CONNEXIONS IN GENERAL.
    • CHAPTER V.: OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM SEXUAL CONNEXIONS.
    • CHAPTER VI.: OF INTEREST DERIVED FROM SITUATION WITH RESPECT TO THE CAUSE OR SUIT.
    • CHAPTER VII.: OF IMPROBITY, CONSIDERED AS A CAUSE OF UNTRUSTWORTHINESS IN TESTIMONY.
    • CHAPTER VIII.: OF THE COMPARATIVE MISCHIEF IN THE EVENT OF MISDECISION, TO THE PREJUDICE OF THE PLAINTIFF'S OR OF THE DEFENDANT'S SIDE.
    • CHAPTER IX.: ULTERIOR SAFEGUARDS AGAINST THE INCONVENIENCIES WHICH MAY PRESENT THEMSELVES AS LIABLE TO ARISE FROM THE ABOLITION OF THE EXCLUSIONARY RULES.
    • CHAPTER X.: RECAPITULATION.
    • CONCLUSION.
    • NOTE ON THE BELGIC CODE.

Vol. 8 Table of Contents

• CHRESTOMATHIA: BEING A COLLECTION OF PAPERS, EXPLANATORY OF THE DESIGN OF AN INSTITUTION, PROPOSED TO BE SET ON FOOT UNDER THE NAME OF THE CHRESTOMATHIC DAY SCHOOL, OR CHRESTOMATHIC SCHOOL, FOR THE EXTENSION OF THE NEW SYSTEM OF INSTRUCTION TO THE HIGHER BRANCHES OF LEARNING, FOR THE USE OF THE MIDDLING AND HIGHER RANKS IN LIFE.(1816)
  • INTRODUCTION BY THE EDITOR.
  • FIRST PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  • SECOND PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
  • CHRESTOMATHIC (a) INSTRUCTION TABLES. TABLE I.
  • CHRESTOMATHIC INSTRUCTION TABLES. TABLE II.
  • APPENDIX. No. I.
  • APPENDIX.—No. II.
  • APPENDIX.—No. III.
  • APPENDIX.—No. IV.: ESSAY ON NOMENCLATURE AND CLASSIFICATION.*
  • APPENDIX.—No. V.
  • APPENDIX.—No. VI.
  • APPENDIX.—No. VII.
  • APPENDIX.—No. VIII.
  • APPENDIX No. IX.
• A FRAGMENT ON ONTOLOGY; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM. (n.d.)
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER I.: CLASSIFICATION OF ENTITIES.
  • CHAPTER II.: FICTITIOUS ENTITIES CLASSIFIED.
• ESSAY ON LOGIC: NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: Logic—What?
  • CHAPTER II.: LOGIC, ITS CHARACTERISTICS.
  • CHAPTER III.: Præcognita: or, Preliminary and General Indications concerning Logic, according to the Aristotelians.
  • CHAPTER IV.: OF ARISTOTLE'S PREDICAMENTS AND POSTPREDICAMENTS.
  • CHAPTER V.*: MODE OF DISCUSSION.
  • CHAPTER VI.: RELATION OF LOGIC TO THE BUSINESS OF HUMAN LIFE IN GENERAL, AND THEREIN TO ARTS AND SCIENCES, i. e. TO DISCIPLINES.
  • CHAPTER VII.: CLEARNESS IN DISCOURSE, HOW TO PRODUCE IT? AND HENCE OF EXPOSITION.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: OF DIVISION.
  • CHAPTER IX.: OF METHODIZATION, OTHERWISE TERMED ARRANGEMENT.†‡
  • CHAPTER X.: OF THE ART OF INVENTION.
  • APPENDIX.—A.
  • APPENDIX B. DIVISION OF ART AND SCIENCE.†
• ESSAY ON LANGUAGE; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM.
  • INTRODUCTION. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: MODES OR FORMS OF WHICH DISCOURSE OR LANGUAGE HAS BEEN FOUND SUSCEPTIBLE, VIZ. AUDIBLE, VISIBLE, AND THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBSTITUTES.
  • CHAPTER II.: USES OF LANGUAGE.
  • CHAPTER III.: OPERATIONS WHICH, IN THE CHARACTER OF AN ART, ARE PERFORMABLE IN RELATION TO DISCOURSE, OR LANGUAGE IN GENERAL.
  • CHAPTER IV.: PROPERTIES DESIRABLE IN A LANGUAGE.
  • CHAPTER V.: OF IMPROVEMENT CONSIDERED AS APPLICABLE TO LANGUAGE, OR THE MEANS BY WHICH, IN SO FAR AS THE PARTICULAR LANGUAGE EMPLOYED BY AN INDIVIDUAL ADMITS OF THE POSSESSION OF THEM, THE PROPERTIES DESIRABLE IN LANGUAGE MAY, ON EACH OCCASION, BE SECURED.
  • CHAPTER VI.: ANALYTICAL VIEW OF THE MATTER OF THOUGHT AND INTERNAL ACTION; CORRESPONDENT VIEW OF THE MATTER OF LANGUAGE.
• FRAGMENTS ON UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR; NOW FIRST PUBLISHED, FROM THE MANUSCRIPTS OF JEREMY BENTHAM. (n.d.)
  • CHAPTER I.: DEFINITIONS.
  • CHAPTER II.: USES OF UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR.
  • CHAPTER III.: OF THE PARTS OF SPEECH.
  • CHAPTER IV.: OF THE NOUN-SUBSTANTIVE.
  • CHAPTER V.: OF THE ADJECTIVE.
  • CHAPTER VI.: OF PRONOUNS.*
  • CHAPTER VII.: OF VERBS.
  • CHAPTER VIII.‡: OF GOVERNMENT AND CONCORD.
  • CHAPTER IX.: OF PREPOSITIONS, ADVERBS, AND CONJUNCTIONS.
  • CHAPTER X.: OF INTERJECTIONS.
• TRACTS ON POOR LAWS AND PAUPER MANAGEMENT. (1797 and n.d.)
  • SITUATION AND RELIEF OF THE POOR.
  • OUTLINE OF A WORK ENTITLED PAUPER MANAGEMENT IMPROVED.
  • OBSERVATIONS ON THE POOR BILL, INTRODUCED BY THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT (WRITTEN, FEBRUARY, 1797.)
• THREE TRACTS RELATIVE TO SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AFFAIRS; WITH A CONTINUAL EYE TO ENGLISH ONES. (1821)
  • Letter to the Spanish Nation on a then (Anno 1820) proposed House of Lords.
  • TRACT, No. II.: Observations on Judge Advocate Hermosa's Panegyric on Judicial Delays; on the Occasion of the Impunity as yet given by him to the loyal Authors of the Cadiz Massacre, a counterpart to the Manchester Massacre; explaining, moreover, the Effects of secrecy in judicature.
  • Letter to the Portuguese Nation, on antiquated Constitutions; on the Spanish Constitution considered as a whole, and on certain defects observable in it; in particular, the immutability-enacting, or infallibility-assuming, the non-re-eligibility-enacting, the sleep-compelling, and the bienniality-enacting clauses.
• LETTERS TO COUNT TORENO, ON THE PROPOSED PENAL CODE, DELIVERED IN BY THE LEGISLATION COMMITTEE OF THE SPANISH CORTES, APRIL 25TH, 1821. (1822)
• SECURITIES AGAINST MISRULE, ADAPTED TO A MAHOMMEDAN STATE, AND PREPARED WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO TRIPOLI IN BARBARY. (1822-23)
  • NOTE BY THE EDITOR.
  • CHAPTER I.: PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS.
  • CHAPTER II.: PUBLIC OPINION THE SOLE REMEDY—PARALLEL BETWEEN THE PUBLIC-OPINION TRIBUNAL AND THE OFFICIAL JUDICATORIES.
  • CHAPTER III.: NOTIFICATION AND PUBLICATION IN REFERENCE TO SECURITIES.
  • CHAP. IV.: THE SECURITIES IN DETAIL.
  • CHAPTER V.: HOPES OF SUCCESS FOR ANY PROJECT HAVING SUCH SECURITIES FOR ITS END.

Vol. 9 Table of Contents

• Constitutional Code (1827, 1830)
• BOOK I.
  • PREFACE.
  • INTRODUCTION.
  • CHAPTER I.: GENERAL DIVISION OF THE AGGREGATE BODY OF THE LAW.
  • CHAPTER II.: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW.
  • CHAPTER III.: CIVIL OR DISTRIBUTIVE LAW.*
  • CHAPTER IV.: PENAL LAW.
  • CHAPTER V.: PROCEDURE LAW.†
  • CHAPTER VI.: FINANCIAL LAW.
  • CHAPTER VII.: PRESCRIPTIONS OR BEARINGS OF THE OTHER CODES OR BRANCHES OF LAW, TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CODE.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: PUBLIC-OPINION TRIBUNAL.
  • CHAPTER IX.: GOOD RULE AND BAD RULE.
  • CHAPTER X.: CORRUPTION.
  • CHAPTER XI.: DELUSION.
  • CHAPTER XII.: FICTION.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: FACTITIOUS HONOUR.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: ESTABLISHED RELIGION—NONE.
  • CHAPTER XV.: SUPREME CONSTITUTIVE.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: SUPREME LEGISLATIVE.
  • CHAPTER XVII.: SUPREME OPERATIVE.
• BOOK II.
  • PREFACE TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF BOOK II.
  • CHAPTER I.: TERRITORY OF THIS STATE, NAME, SITUATION, BOUNDARIES, DIVISIONS.
  • CHAPTER II.: ENDS AND MEANS.
  • CHAPTER III.: SOVEREIGNTY, IN WHOM.*.
  • CHAPTER IV.: AUTHORITIES.
  • CHAPTER V.: CONSTITUTIVE AUTHORITY.*
  • CHAPTER VI.: LEGISLATURE.
  • CHAPTER VII.: LEGISLATOR’S INAUGURAL DECLARATION.*
  • CHAPTER VIII.: PRIME MINISTER.
  • CHAPTER IX.: MINISTERS COLLECTIVELY.
  • CHAPTER X.: DEFENSIVE FORCE.
  • CHAPTER XI.: MINISTERS SEVERALLY.
  • CHAPTER XII.: Judiciary Collectively.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: Judges Immediate.
  • CHAP. XIV.: Judge Immediate Deputes Permanent.
  • CHAPTER XV.: Judge Immediate Deputes Occasional.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: QUASI-JURY.
  • CHAPTER XVII.: Judicial Inspectors.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.: Immediate Government Advocates.
  • CHAPTER XIX.: GOVERNMENT ADVOCATE GENERAL.
  • CHAPTER XX.: ELEEMOSYNARY ADVOCATES.
  • CHAPTER XXI.: Immediate and Appellate Judiciary Registrars.
  • CHAPTER XXII.: Appellate Judicatories.
  • CHAPTER XXIII.: Professional Lawyers.
  • CHAPTER XXIV.: Justice Minister.
  • CHAPTER XXV.: Local Headmen.
  • CHAPTER XXVI.*: Local Registrars.
  • CHAPTER XXVII.: Judiciary Messengers.
  • CHAPTER XXVIII.: Judiciary Prehensors.
  • CHAPTER XXIX.: Sublegislatures.
  • CHAPTER XXX.: Sublegislation Ministers.
  • CHAPTER XXXI.: Government, Simple or Federative.
• APPENDIX.
  • No. I.: Collectanea relating to Book ii. Ch. vi. Legislature, Section 20, Attendance and Remuneration, Art. 18. (Supra, p. 165.)
  • No. II.: Collectanea relating to Ch. xi. Ministers severally, Section 10, Health Minister (Supra, p. 443.)
  • No. III.: Collectanea relating to Book ii.—Ch. xii. Judiciary collectively.
  • No. IV.: Collectanea relating to Ch. xvi. Quasi-Jury.
  • No. V.: Collectanea, relating to Ch. xxii. Appellate Judicatories, Section 8, Seats, where.
  • No. VI.: Collectanea relating to Ch. xxiii., Professional Lawyers.
  • No. VII.: Collectanea relating to Ch. xxv. Local Headmen, and Ch. xxvi. Local Registrars.
  • No. VIII.: Collectanea relating to Ch. xxxi. Government, Simple or Federative.

Vol. 10 Table of Contents

• MEMOIRS OF JEREMY BENTHAM; INCLUDING AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL CONVERSATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE.
  • CHAPTER I.: INFANCY AND BOYHOOD.—1748-59.
  • CHAPTER II.: SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, 1754—1763. Æt. 6—15.
  • CHAPTER III.: 1763—1770. Æt. 15—25.
  • CHAPTER IV.: 1770—1780. Æt. 22—32.
  • CHAPTER V.: 1781.—Æt. 33.
  • CHAPTER VI.: 1781—1785. Æt. 33—37.
  • CHAPTER VII.: 1785—1787. Æt. 37—39.
  • CHAPTER VIII.: 1787—1789. Æt. 39—41.
  • CHAPTER IX.: 1789—1791. Æt. 41—43.
  • CHAPTER X.: 1791—1792. Æt. 43—44.
  • CHAPTER XI.: 1792-1795. Æt. 44—47.
  • CHAPTER XII.: 1795—1799. Æt. 47—51.
  • CHAPTER XIII.: 1800—1801. Æt. 51—53.
  • CHAPTER XIV.: 1801—2. Æt. 53—4.
  • CHAPTER XV.: 1803—7. Æt. 54—59.
  • CHAPTER XVI.: 1807—1810. Æt. 59—62.
  • CHAPTER XVII.: 1810—1813. Æt. 62—65.
  • CHAPTER XVIII.: 1813—17. Æt. 65—69.
  • CHAPTER XIX.: 1817—1819. Æt. 69—71.
  • CHAPTER XX.: 1820—23. Æt. 72—75.
  • CHAPTER XXI.: 1823—27. Æt. 75-79.
  • CHAPTER XXII.: 1827—28. Æt. 79—80.

Vol. 11 Table of Contents

• MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE.
  • CHAPTER XXIII.: 1828—29. Æt. 80—81.
  • CHAPTER XXIV.: 1829—30. Æt. 81—2.
  • CHAPTER XXV.: 1830—31. Æt. 82—3.
  • CHAPTER XXVI.: 1831. Æt. 83.
• APPENDIX. SELECTIONS FROM BENTHAM'S NARRATIVE REGARDING THE PANOPTICON PENITENTIARY PROJECT, AND FROM THE CORRESPONDENCE ON THE SUBJECT.