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Bentham's Law of Escheat, pp. 158 (7  December  1797) Bentham, JeremySupply without burthen, or, Escheat vice taxation: being a proposal for a saving in taxes by an extension of the law of escheat: including strictures on the taxes on collateral succession, comprized in the budget of 7th Dec. 1795: to which is prefixed (printed in 1793 and now first published), A protest against law taxes: shewing the peculiar mischievousness of all such impositions as add to the expense of an appeal to justice. 1795

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