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Mar. 1809
Press. Ch.4. Kindred Offences

Technical definitions
§§2. Modern confusion

13 or 1 —
From predecessors'
confusion come successors'
Natural that by the
successors of those by
whom defamation and
vituperation were confounded
with history,
obscenity, blasphemy &
sedition, do should be
confounded with arson
assault and murder.
p.6

2.
Not by their logic
but by their rhetoric
viz in a dream from
a well endowed pulpit
or a rhetoric chair,
degraded from the seat
of a sinecure into do
of an efficient office.
p.6.

3.
Certainty a quality
by lawyers
& pretended to be given
by them, but exacted
only to mislead. p.7.

4.
1. Example 1. Parish &
County &c — required
to be stated, where
doubtful and uninstructive.
p.7.

5
2. Absurd falsity exacted
on pretence of certainty
Example — the same
act to be stated as
having happened in
6 different ways.
p.7

6
When certainty wod
be of use viz — to suitor's
there withholden: ex. gr.
a precise definition of
each offence. p.7.

7.
— in particular this
of libel in which the
constitution and every body
under it depend —

Description from
which subjects might
save themselves from
being Suitors & Clients
p.8

8
Description given is
that by which arbitrary
power is grasped, & a
mine of business kept
open. p.8.

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Technical definitions
§§2. Modern confusion

9. The task bfr unattempted
by the dynasty
of sages is left to be
attempted by J.B. under
every discouragement &c.
p.9.

Extracts from II Strange
7 or 9
Ch. Justice Curtor morun
Probyn — Peace
Hanging Page
Hales Christinanity
& Morality —
His Christianity &
James 1st's hanged Witches.
p.6

to shew how by
taking up any vague
word such as peace &c
penal laws to any
extent are made by
a Judge or a note-writer.

All the bad effects
of law are thus produced
without any of the
good ones. p.7.

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Date_1	1809-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	13 or 1, 2-9
Box	026	Main Headings	law amendment
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