Of the Influence of Time and Place in Matters of Legislation Jeremy Bentham

Source of the Text

This text was digitized from Volume I of the 1843 Bowring edition of Bentham's works. About it Bowring has this to say:

The substance of this Essay has appeared in Dumont's Traités. It is now first published in English from the original MSS. of Bentham.

Table of Contents

• Introduction,
• Chapter I. Principles to be followed in Transplanting 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.
  • Section 1. Retrospective View.
  • Section 2. Prospective View.