JB/016/187/001

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1828. Jany 9
Law Amendment or Penal Code or Duelling extinguishable

Infanticide the child legitimate – infanticide, the child
illegitimate, abortion – under marriage proposed abstinence from generation
abstinence from marriage after cessation of the capacity for generation
–abstinence from marriage – by all these several acts
and habits, acts positive and negative a demand is presented
for conjunctive consideration.

By infanticide understand on this occasion infanticide
committed by performed with consent of both parents or the survivor in the
person of a child at an age at which as yet the fear of death
has not place: say for example an age less than that of a
year: care being taken to choose from a mode of for the production
of the effect some a mode in which it follows instantaneously from the act.

In this case, evil of the In this case, evil of the first order, none: evil of
the second order none: sole effects produced in the judgment of the only competent judges such as are of the nature
of gods.

Enactive

Art. For infanticide, no suit will can be instituted,
but at the instance of a guardian the father, mother
or anterior progenitor a guardian of the infant.

By an infant, En understand on this occasion, a
child under (two?) years old. Reasons
1. Evil of the first order none. On the part of the infant,
Before the act, suffering one; after the act, as little
Evil difference none: exceptthe case excepted in
which it is made left punishable.

Art. The father of an illegitimate child
will be considered as the father to this purpose.

Identifier: | JB/016/187/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1828-01-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	016	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	187	Info in main headings field	duelling extinguishable
Image	001	Titles	enactive
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	5994
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