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March 19. 1826
Penal Code
7 B.1. General Titles
Cap IV. Instruments of Delinquency
7 §. deception &c deception
16
Wilful falsehood
criminalizes not only
offence but also otherwise
blameless acts

Of wilful falsehood, how slight sooner
be the evil produced by it, to any assignable
individual, the effect will be not only to give a decided
character of criminality to that which
of itself would be an offence, not even to an
act which, but for the evil instrument, that
employed in the performance of it, would be
blameless and therefore as such lawful.

17
Thus trade corruption
injurious but
productive of preponderate
good, mendacity
always injurious &
never productive of
preponderant good

Thus, in the case of ordinary trade, and
the competition during traders. It may be said
and not without truth, that, on the occasion
of such competition, no one person sells his
goods commodities, while those of any other remain unsold,
without its being true to say, that by one
such person his profit has been made, to the
detriment and at the expense of another
But this evil, such as it is, is not only productive
of preponderant good — to wit, the



Identifier: | JB/068/161/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.

Date_1

1826-03-19

Marginal Summary Numbering

16-17

Box

068

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

161

Info in main headings field

penal code

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d7 / e7

Penner

john neal

Watermarks

Marginals

george bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

22356

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