completed by a series of works
applying his principles to (1) civil law; (2) penal law; (3) procedure;
(4) reward; (5) constitutional law; (6) political tactics; (7)
international law; (8) finance; and (9) political economy, and by a
tenth treatise giving a plan of a body of law 'considered in respect of
its form,' that is, upon 'nomography.' He wrote more or less in the
course of his life upon all these topics. Dumont's _Traites_ of 1802
were based partly upon the _Introduction_ and partly upon Bentham's MSS.
corresponding to unfinished parts of this general scheme.

The two first sections of this scheme are represented in the _Works_ by
_Principles of the Civil Code_ (i. 297-364) and _Principles of Penal
Law_ (i. 365-580). The _Principles of the Civil Code_ is translated from
Dumont's _Traites_, where it follows a condensed statement of 'general
principles' taken from the opening chapters of the _Introduction_. An
appendix 'on the levelling system' is added in the _Works_ from
Bentham's MSS. The _Principles of Penal Law_ consists of three parts:
the first and third (on 'political remedies for the evil of offences'
and on 'indirect means of preventing crimes') are translated from parts
2 and 4 of Dumont's _Principes du Code penal_ (parts 1 and 3 of Dumont
being adaptations from the _Introduction to Morals and Legislation_).
The second part of the _Penal Law_, or _The Rationale of Punishment_ is
from Dumont's _Theorie des Peines et des Recompenses_. Dumont took it
from a MS. written by Bentham in 1775. (See Bentham's _Works_, i. 388.)
An appendix on 'Death Punishment,' addressed by Bentham to the French
people in 1830, is added to Part II. in the _Works_ (i. 525-532). No. 4
of Bentham's general scheme corresponds to the _Rationale of Reward_,
founded upon two MSS., one in French and one in English, used by Dumont
in the _Theorie des Peines et des Recompenses_. The English version in
the _Works_, chiefly translated from Dumont and compared with the
original manuscript, was first published in 1825 (ii. 189-266). Richard
Smith 'of the Stamps and Taxes' was the editor of this and of an edition
of the _Rationale of Punishment_ in 1831, and of various minor
treatises. (Bentham's _Works_, x. 548 _n._)

The _Table of the Springs of Action_ (i. 195-220), written at an early
period, was printed in 1815, and published, with modifications, in 1817.
The _Vue generale_ included in the _Traites_ of 1802 was intended by
Bentham as a s