Principles of the Civil Code Jeremy Bentham

Source of the Text

This text was digitized from volume 1 of the 1843 Bowring edition of Bentham's works. About the text as printed therein, Bowring has this to say:

The following work is edited from the Traités de Legislation, as published by Dumont, and the original MSS. of Bentham.

And about the appendix:

The following Essay is edited from the MSS. of Bentham.

Contents

• Dumont's Introduction.

FIRST PART.

• Chapter I. Of Rights and Obligations,
• Chapter II. Distinct Objects of the Civil Law, viz. Subsistence, Abundance, Equality, and Security,
• 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 on 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. Sacrifice of Security to Security,
• Chapter XIV. Cases subject to Dispute,
  • Section 1. Of Indigence
  • Section 2.  Expense of Public Worship,
  • Section 3.  Cultivation of the Arts and Sciences,
• Chapter XV. Examples of attacks upon Security,
• Chapter XVI. Of forced Exchanges,
• Chapter XVII. Power of the Laws over Expectation,

SECOND PART.

• Chapter I. Of Titles which confer a right to Property,
• Chapter II. Another mode of acquisition---Consent,
• Chapter III. Another mode of acquisition---Succession,
• Chapter IV. 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,

THIRD PART.

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,