★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
'Tis this Contrivance which multiplies the Moments
of Danger to the Criminal, and widens,
if one may so say, that Part of this Field of
Action which is exposed to the Activity of the Law.
An inquisitive and enlightened Observation
investigates at length every Stage on which he may
be found: the Artillery of the Law is brought by
Degrees to bear not only on the very Goal of Iniquity
at which the Offender finds himself at the
End of his Career, but on the whole Course over
which he must travel to arrive at it: Care being
taken, whenever there is a Turning that leads
also besides to Innocence, to raise a Breastwork+ that shall to
partition off that Quarter of the Road, for the
security of the inanxious innoxious <add>unobnoxious Traveller.
By the establishment of offences Accessory
The Legislator gives himself so many times
the chance he would otherwise have of preventing
the mischief in question as far as it is to be done by punishing
the Principal offence, as is the number
of the different sorts of such offences that
Identifier: | JB/063/028/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 63.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
063 |
penal code |
||
028 |
offences princip. and accessory |
||
001 |
|||
copy/fair copy sheet |
2 |
||
recto |
f54 / |
||
[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]] |
|||
20217 |
|||