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23 March 1826
Penal Code
ChIII. Person and Reputation
§7. Corporal vexation 6
The state of things
in question very detrimental
to general
happiness

Be this as it may, a sate of things in which
even on the score of the very injury contempt
attaches itself to the injurer howsoever guilty
to the sufferer, howsoever completely innocent,
and attrociously injured, and whether possessed
or not a chance of defending himself and
averting the injury, is a state of things
unquestionably detrimental to general
happiness. Contempt for whole is everywhere
the law of the land, gives remuneration
and encouragement to injustice, and stabilities
a sort of petty tyranny, and as many petty
tyrants as there are persons, who find
others unable to oppose resistance to their will resist them, or are fearful
of the consequences. There then is a manifest
aberration of the decrees of the publick opinion
tribunal, from the unquestionable rule of
right, an abberation, which it is incumbent
on the legislator to use his endeavours to put an end to

Identifier: | JB/067/288/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1	1826-03-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	6
Box	067	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john neal	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	22121
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