Principles of the Civil Code

Jeremy Bentham

Part 3

Of The Rights and Obligations Attached to Different Private Conditions.

Introduction

Introduction

We now proceed to consider in greater detail the rights and obligations which the law attaches to the different conditions which compose the domestic or private condition. These conditions may be divided into four---those of

• Master and Servant;
• Guardian and Ward;
• Parent and Child;
• Husband and Wife.

If we were to follow the historical or the natural order of these relations, the last in the list would become the first: for the sake of avoiding repetitions, beginning with the most simple object has been preferred. The rights and obligations of a father and a husband are composed of the rights and obligations of a master and a guardian; these two first conditions are the elements of all the others.

• Part 2, Chapter 7 Of Distribution of Loss.

• Part 3, Chapter 1 Of Master and Servant.

• Intro and TOC, Principles of the Civil Code