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1826. May 17.
1. Penal Code.
Ch. VI. Offences affectg use of prop.
§. 10. Stealing

In regard to the offence of Stealing

In some divers codes, but in the English codes more
particularly, a practice has hitherto prevailed
of establishing an indeterminable number of diversifications,
in respect of the punishment, followed in some
codes by corresponding ones in the mode of prosecution.
— =The scale of punishment rising from impunity to
death. The principle in so far as anything in
the shape of reason or principle has found admittance
into the thoughts of the legislator seems to have been
this. In some of these cases facility of stealing—
the probability of escaping from detection and thence
from punishment receives from some of these
circumstances an increase; but, in the eyes of the person
under temptation the less the probability of his
incurring the punishment the less effective will be
the influence of the apprehension of it, unless by
some means or other a supply be provided for
the deficiency. Sole instrument of supply in this
case, increase in the magnitude of the punishment:
for as to any increase by means of information
or in the modes of prosecution or in the laws of
evidence — that is what cannot be thought of the law
being in a scale of perfection it is supposed in
both those respects, and it would remain to be shown, how if in either of these
cases any were advisable, it should not be
equally so in every other.



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1826-05-17

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067

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penal code

Folio number

328

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penal code

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001

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copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

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recto

Page Numbering

a1

Penner

john neal

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Notes public

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22161

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