The theory of legislation

Contents
PRINCIPLES OF LEGISLATION Chap I The principle of Utility 13
The ascetic principle 16
Operation of these principles upon legislation 27
Further explanations Objections answered 29
The different kinds of pleasures and pains 35
Pains and pleasures considered as sanctions 43
The measure of pleasures and pains 46
Circumstances which affect sensibility 49
Laws relatively to subsistence 123
Laws relatively to abundance 125
Pathological propositions upon which the good of equality is founded 126
Of security 134
Of property 137
Answer to an objection 139
Analysis of the evils which result from attacks 141
Means of uniting security and equality 149
Analysis of political good and evil Their diffu sion through society 59
Effect of the delinquents character on alarm 64
Reasons for erecting certain acts into offences 72
Subject of this part 73
The limits which separate morals from legisla tion Chap XIII False methods of reasoning on the subject of legislation 79
PART THIRD 83
Punishments which ought not to be inflicted 101
PRINCIPLES OF THE CIVIL CODE Introduction 111
PART FIRST OBJECTS OF THE Civil Law CHAP I Rights and obligations 116
Ends of civil law 119
Relations between those ends 121
Examples of attacks upon security 166
Forced exchanges 175
To facilitate the means of recognising and finding 184
PART SECOND 190
Title by consent 201
Title by succession 211
Testaments 218
Community of goods or tenancy in common 231
Of slavery 237
Guardian and ward 248
Of marriage 255