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1827 June 22nd
Penal Code

Division of Offences
Ch. III. §.

1
Offence consist an
Act forbidden by law

2
Cime an Act productive
of great
mischief on the object
of great odium or to
which great punishment
is attached by
Law.

3
Between Crimes &
Offences not crimes no
determine line of
definition – The effect
of the word Crime
is to influence the passions,
create antipathy
towards the offender
& thence a degree
of punishment
beyond what a
calm consideration
of the demand for
it would fix.

4
So therefore excluded
with all its
conjugates from the
present Code except
inn the case of
Criminal consciousness.

5
Distinction between

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Division of Offences
Ch. III. §.

5 continued
Civil & criminal appears
purely arbitrary
therefore not here employed.

6
In existing bodies offences
distinguished according
to the quantity
of punishment into
offences in
and faults but in
what circumstances
of the nature effects &
tendency of the offences
are these distinctions
grounded.

7 Offences the classification
according to
the remedy or to one
sort of remedy applied
to them may be compared
to the classification
of diseases of which the
respective medicines
should be taken as
the basis for ex-opiate
diseases medicinal
diseases & so on.

This principle of arrangement
equally suited to
the prevented from
applying the requisite
attention to the subject
(9)

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Division of Offences
Ch. III. §.

& to the Tyrant whose
interest it is that the
nature of the offence
should be misconceived.

Example of offences
of misgovernment
of which it is his interest
to prevent the
conception & exposure.

Go on to speak of reward
for Discourses
encouraging the above
Acts or supporting
the power by which
they are exercised.

Examples of this
mode of classification
1 English common
Law – 2 English Law
consolidation – 3. French
Codes – 4. Bavaria
Bacon's Code.

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Date_1	1827-06-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-7
Box	064	Main Headings	Penal Code
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