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3 July 1805
Evidence

This sort of practice is not forgery: for in a legal sense
nothing that is not punishable by law as forgery is forgery. In
a pathological sense however it has in a considerable degree, if
not altogether the effect of forgery. If by the act of another
I find see myself deprived of that provision which I see was destined for
me by my relation or my friend, in what degree is my suffering
lessened by seeing that the author of it may suppose instead of being
hanged for it in the as a malefactor, is honoured for it as a
Judge.

Thus much as to the mischief of the second order. A In a certain
number of instances men have had false wills made for them
by malefactors in the way of forgery. In certain a certain number
of instances men have had false wills made fo them as
above in the way of judicature. At this moment, four of these
two sources of privation and disappointment, which is it that promotes the greatest
probability, the most alarming formidable danger? This will depend
in some measure by on the ratio of the two numbers abovementioned.
Which then is has been the greatest greater? Let him give the an
answer who looks regards upon himself as qualified to give one it. One But
the difference between delinquency with its attendant punishment, and impunity is a circumstance there is that seems to tend in no inconsiderable degree
to render the injustice by forgery by the least common of the two.
The forgerer never acts in secret but and at the peril of his life: some such
deceits most doubtless have remained undiscovered, and thereby crowned
with success: but a considerable, and probably the greater number have
by detection been frustrated and punished. The False wills made
upon the bench are made not only without danger, but with full assurance
of success. The true man is cheated out of his property: and
the praise of learning is among the rewards rigged by the authors
of the deceit imposture. How vast the mass of learning, how venerable awful
the reputation of learning that has been built upon this ground!

Identifier: | JB/047/154/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-07-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	154	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	15022
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