THE

WORKS

OF

JEREMY BENTHAM,

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF
HIS EXECUTOR,

JOHN BOWRING.

VOLUME III.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM TAIT, 107, PRINCE'S STREET;

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCXLIII.

011-7-40 J.A

DEFENCE OF USURY; Showing the Impolicy of the present Legal Restraints on

the terms of Pecuniary Bargains; in Letters to a Friend. To which is added, a

Letter to Adam Smith, Esq., LL.D., on the Discouragements opposed by the above

Restraints to the Progress of Inventive Industry,

OBSERVATIONS ON THE RESTRICTIVE AND PROHIBITORY COMMER-

CIAL SYSTEM; especially with a Reference to the Decree of the Spanish Cortes

of July, 1820,

A PLAN FOR SAVING ALL TROUBLE AND EXPENSE IN THE TRANS-

FER OF STOCK, and for enabling the Proprietors to receive their Dividends with-

out powers of Attorney, or attendance at the Bank of England, by the conversion

of Stock into NOTE ANNUITIES,

A GENERAL VIEW OF A COMPLETE CODE OF LAWS,

PANNOMIAL FRAGMENTS,

NOMOGRAPHY; OR THE ART OF INDITING LAWS,

APPENDIX :-LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS, or Instruments of Invention and

Discovery employed by Jeremy Bentham,

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,

EQUITY DISPATCH COURT BILL: Being a Bill for the Institution of an Experi-

mental 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,

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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,

433

RADICAL REFORM BILL, WITH EXTRACTS FROM THE REASONS. Bill,

intituled Parliamentary Reform Act: Being an act for the more adequate Repre-

sentation of the People in the Commons' House of Parliament,

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RADICALISM NOT DANGEROUS,

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