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G.B. 1828. Jany. 8.
Law Amendment or Penal Code Duelling extinguishablePropositions
Ch. II. Codification or
Ch. III. Remedies
Duelling
Enactments

1.
I. Intent.
A challenge, what.

2.
II. Expressions.
Challenge verbal, or virtual:
verbal, discoursement:
virtually deportment.

3.
II. Expressions
Virtual challenge –
1. Simple
2. Aggravated: viz by offence against reputation
to person and reputation.

4.
A party on this occasion,
what.

5.
III. Suffering intended
1. exclusively
or casually:
casually, in conjunction
with non-mental
corporal vexation
curable or incurable.

6.
Whether
or none
depends on
1. Weapons
2. Miscellaneous circumstances.


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1.
Homicide from duelling.
Remedies –
1. Imprisonment, with
or without labours imposed,
and other severities.
2. Appropriation of property
as compensation
to slayee's post obituary
representatives.
3. On disincarceration
presence banishment
in any of its modifications.

2.
Reasons for efficiency
of proposed remedies,
notwithstanding
inefficiency of existing
ones.
1. Experienced efficiency
of binding over
parties to keep the
peace.

2. But efficient as
is this remedy as far
as it goes, it applies
to a very few cases
only.
3. A most powerful
auxiliary wanting
in compensation to
slayees representatives.

3.
4. Ulterior causes of
failure of existing
system.
1. Reputation obtainable
by braving suffering
imposed.

4.
Solitary case of exemption
in consequence
of duelling
homicides.


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5.
All punishment
avoided by habitual
perjury.

6.
Death by the hands
of the adversary.
By English customs
of rare occurrence.
Frequency in the Use.

7.
Under existing
system, execution
opposed by expense.

8.
Blood-thirsty duellist
without controul.


Identifier: | JB/064/072/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 64.

Date_1

1828-01-08

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-6, 1-8

Box

064

Main Headings

Law Amendment; Penal Code

Folio number

072

Info in main headings field

Law Amendment or Penal Code Duelling extinguishable

Image

001

Titles

Category

Marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

Watermarks

J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1824

Marginals

Paper Producer

Jonathan Blenman

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1824

Notes public

ID Number

20426

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