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1826. July 30
Penal Code.
II. Offences against reputation
Ch. Defamation
§. Extenuations

Extenuation 1. The misdeed or propensity imputed, political:
supposed misdoer a public functionary
Reasons for the extenuation in case of rashness negligent inadventure,
or rash missupposed evil consciousness being supposed
absent

1. Importance of correct and compleat statement
better a hundred false imputations uttered than one political
misdeed remain unpunished and undivulged.

2. Difficulty of giving to the statement the qualities of correctness
and compleatness.

3. Certainty that if the charge be not true, the defence
or defenders in abundance will not be wanting to the difference.
So even though the imputation be true.

4. Danger to the descr defamer of danger of suffering sufferances
by from the vengeance of the defamee.

Identifier: | JB/067/264/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1826-07-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	264	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	22097
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