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FALSE WEIGHTS and MEASURES.
There are two considerations reasons <add>circumstances</add> which concur in reducing keeping down very much the mischievousness
of this offence the form of this - - The one is, that the deception in bulky commodities can take place, only to a
small value without being detected by the senses: the other, that or they become in the finer
& more valuable they required or are dealt for in a larger quantitya greater stock in the dealer, & consequently a greater
degree of responsibility: fixed to a place, it becomes not worth his while to risk
his character & his trade for a paltry & precarious peculation: & even should
he do so, he has forthcoming wherewithal that to make amends & to make the
as if it had never been.
Identifier: | JB/070/216/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
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false weights and measures |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]] |
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