Jurisprudence (Essay)

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James Mill. Jurisprudence (Essay)

Jurisprudence (Essay)

Table of Contents

The End of Jurisprudence

Footnote

The Protection of Rights

What is Required for the Perfection of the Civil Code

What is Necessary to the Perfection of the Penal Code

The Doctrine of Punishment

Footnote

The Code of Procedure

Footnote

The Judicial Establishment

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James Mill

Published by Good Press, 2022

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In this complicated term, it is obvious that there is involved, on the one hand, the idea of the person to whom a share is allotted, and on the other hand, an idea of the things which are allotted. The one is the owner of the right, the person to whom it belongs; the other is the object of the right, namely, the person or thing over which certain powers are given.

All rights of course are rights to objects of human desire,—of nothing else need shares be allotted. All objects which men desire, are desired, either as the end, or as means. The pleasurable state of the mind is the end; consisting of the feelings of the mind. It would be absurd, however, to speak of giving a man a right to the feelings of his own mind. The objects of desire, therefore, which are the objects of right, are not the pleasurable feelings themselves, which are desired as the end, but the objects which are desired as the means to that end.

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