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1827 July 10
Penal Code

Homicide
Challenging

In the case of the Bully, mischief of 2d order is fear
not of death only of

9
Inconsistencies
of the English law
As long as no death
no punishment by the
mere additional circumstance
of death
the offence ranked
with those of the
most mischievous
nature.

On this part of the field as on every other, English
jurisprudence teems with inconsistencies.

So long as no death ensued, the circumstance
of casual exempted one party if not both from all punishment:
from as by compensation to the injured representative
except when the injury was of a pecuniary nature: it
was in this as in all other instance to what
any English lawyer goes by the name of Justice.
That which had a death ensued would have been exempt
from all imputation of criminality was by the mere circumstance
of death, converted into ranked with offences of the most
mischievous nature: now with , for the loss of homicide
without warning for the purpose of depredation. On the of the
a stranger the purpose it depended whether the author of the
suffering should be fatal wound was criminal or guiltless.

his part The bleed and infecting atrocity of the Judges is at the expence
of perjury, robbed of the prey by the kind heartedness of
Juries. About the middle of the last century, a Major Only is
mentioned in the late Lord Awkland's work on
spoken of as the last person who at that time had been executed
for murder committed on the occasion of a duel fairly
fought. +

+ Go on to enquire
how far the fairness
should influence.

Identifier: | JB/016/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1827-07-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	9
Box	016	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	5894
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