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SECT: Parts of a Law.

This is the first occasion before of our hearing of the
acute distinction between mala in se, and
mala prohibita; which being so shrewd, and
sounding so pretty, and being in Lain, has
no sort of occasion to be intelligible. have any meaning to it: accordingly it has none. "Theft
is here a malum and in se in this page
as luck will have it. In the fourth Volume
[of these valuable commentaries] and in the
eight-and-twentieth and nine-and-twentieth pages of it, it is a malum
prohibitum only merely being there put in point-blank express opposition
to murder, with which it is here in
company.†

† NOTE
[Vol. IV p.22]

"If a woman committ theft, Burglary, or other
"civil offences against the Laws of society, by
"the coercion of the husband; or &c. ... she is
"not guilty of any crime ... But [ib. p.29]
"even with regard to wives, this rule admitts of
"an exception in crimes that are mala in
se, and prohibited by the Law of Nature, as
"Murder and the like: not only because these
"are of a deeper dye: but also, because since in
"a state of nature no one is in subjection to another,
"it would be unreasonable to screen an offender
"from the punishment due to natural crimes,
"by the refinements and subordinations of civil Society".

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