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OFFENCES INCEPTIVE x CONSUMMATE
Of ATTEMPTS

Punishment of Attempts

It may be laid down as a general Rule, that whatever is the punishment
annexed to a crime when consummated, that of the bare attempt to committ it
should be less. where the completion of the obnoxious project/Act depends upon the project's party Agent For otherwise, having already incurred the wh entire utmost penalty of
the Law, the Criminal will have nothing further to withold him; he behoves the therefore
to go on to the accomplishment in all cases; and to reap the pleasures, the purchase
of which he has already paid. This Rule thus obvious and incontestible is
not invariably far from being observed in the English Law. The punishment which belonging to murder
is committed extended to the bare attempt to committ it by Shooting by an injudicious Statute
That the consequences of this error have not more severely felt is to be
imputed either to b an ignorance of the Law, or an expectation of Pardon +
+ which in an humane nation
will always adhere attach itself to the [Law]
& destroy the effect of an atrocious
Law.

Qu. examples of Indictment
with and whether
any pardon

When Laws are thus preposterous, it is an advantage that they are not known ignorance/want of notoriety & execution which in either cases is a calamity, is here/in this instance an advantage
and it is thus in Jurisprudence, as in Medicine, one poison will sometimes correct
another. It is not known, because the common reasoning of Mankind leads to
no such Idea: and common reasoning is the only foundation the bulk of the
people hasve for their knowledge or rather their conjecture concerning them/the existence of the Laws of which
it most beholds concerns them to be with certainty apprized. The obviousness of that mischief
consequent upon many/some crimes in many instances teaches them that there must be some punishment annexed
to the commission of them those crimes but this is all it can teach them: & except
what they pick up from from casually & Interrupted examples, their knowledge thanks to the improvidence neglect of the Law this
important point extends no further — But of this more fully in another place.

Limits of this topic

It will This topic is continued extends itself down that portion in the Scale of Crimes which
is occupied by such wherein the energy is exerted immediately on the thing
substracted or the person suffering.

Penalty proposed Fine & Imprisonment
discretionary

Offences Accessory before are such as contribute to the doing of the act. Offences Accessory after
are such as serve to shew that it has been done.

OFFENCES Mischievous by Relation. Attempts [BR][3][ ]

Identifier: | JB/063/114/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 63.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	063	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	114	Info in main headings field	offences mischievous by relation - attempts
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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