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I should never have done were I to mention
the British statutes which are made waste paper
by this defect. I can not help suspecting that
the notion of obviating it may, unknown perhaps
even to the authors themselves, have have had some share in giving birth to some of those
frantic statutes in which we see the most trifling
peccadillos put upon a level treated upon the <add>same footing</add> with the
most atrocious crimes. By the 9
a statute which is called the Black act and deserves
the name by more titles than one. When an offence
is raised to a certain rank by the punishment
annext to it, I mean the rank of filing the
power of arrest attaches upon it, of course; and
viz: by the general general rules of the common law
without any particular provision in the statute.
By a statute which is called the Black act by
and deserves the name by more titles than one, a
man may be hanged inter alia for cutting a pig's tail. By
a statute of George I. 6 G.I. C.23. you may be made a slave
for seven years for offering to tear make a hole in a
man's stocking. By a statute of the same reign which is called the Black act g.G.I.c.22. and which observes that title the name by more titles

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	062	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	191	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	20181
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