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Man & Wife
Divorce for
Cruelty
Jury of A Medictas Jury of Husbands of
Matrons (or Widows) to try divorce for Cruelty —
Matrons or Widows to be more than 40
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Prodigality
Sequestration of Estate for Imprudence Prodigality
if Estate in trust — Owner guard her to
be a minor — Prodigals register'd — Caution not
to trust. Proviso for Mercantile transacting.
Caution particularly necessary in a political
view to persons in high office — Ex. Gr. Peers
in England. New married persons.
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Prevention —
Foundlings to
be Soldiers
1. A good popular reason for obliging them to serve
2. And would diminish the real hardship, as they
would have no other prospect before them
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Profaneness
For profaneness Swearing Blasphemy pecuniary penalties — these will
fall heaviest on the poor on whom alone it is of importance
to prevent
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Promulgation
Aphorism
The Law can be of use no farther than
as it is known
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Discovery of accomplices
When a criminal is convicted of an crime of rapacity
Diet him in a dungeon to make him confess not only
the his accomplices in that crime, but in any preceding
crimes. Punish him afterwards if the any
crimes come out of which he knew the authors, &
did not inform. For this purpose let 3 months dieting
be added to every sentence with power to remit it as soon
as the end is obtained. This with respect only to thieves by profession.
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