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FORGERY Indirect Legislation [BR][3]
FORGERY. Indirect Legislation
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The above expedients will afford a sufficient security against the total obliteration of
the contents of an Instrument in order to make the paper a groundwork for a false one; which otherwise
might be very possible; since the steeping it all over, supposing the letters could be entirely discharged by that method varying it's appearance uniformly
would give it the appearance of being damped by accidentally by weather:
Instance of erasure by solvents in 1 Str. 18.
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Forgery — License to prevent smuggling.
Partial obliteration is very difficult in a manoeuvre impracticable to be performed whe without detection where
there is suspicion; on account of the dissimilitude of the vitiated part with the general
which such a manoeuvre would necessarily produce, when the whole is not under
command: if the matter was not thoroughly steeped & sponged off along with
solvent, a solution infusion of Galls would bringing it in again, + + probably of this experi. more or less strongly, as in
cording sionly as the dexterity of the vitiating manipulations.
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If a little Prussian Blue were before it was more mixed up with the Ink (the Blue used before it is made into into cakes and whole it is yet more easily diffusible through water than it is afterwards) this would could not be discharged by an acid but would be enlivened: and the least discolourment imaginable upon the white paper is sufficiently visible. For this purpose the Blue need not be brighten'd by an Acid as is done when it is manufactured and this will leave the quantity greater than it is after the latter process, and will much diminish the expence. As the Blue will still be the dearest arti ingredient in the mixture, a penalty must be inflicted on the diminishing it's proportion. Gum may be used in the water the better to be suspend it — but its integrant parts are so very small, that by reason of the resistance of the water it sinks very little as in that state. I have some, part of which has remained suspended without shaking for months.
Obj. A Scheme apparently so well calculated to prevent deceit, will lull men into security.
Deceptions being less suspected will pass the easier. This is mentioned not as conclusive,
but as fit to be consider'd.
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Ann. Register. for 1771, p. 143.
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Sept. 4. At the Trial of Martin and Birch for the Forgery of a Will purporting to be
that of Sr And. Chadwick.
"A wholesale Paper-maker who was very instrumental in convicting the above men,"
"swore by the stamp or mark that was upon the Paper, that he made the said Papers in"
"1768 4 years after the will was dated, which circumstance had great weight with"
"the Court"
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And advantage of a plan of this sort, is that all the difficulties attending this the kind of
imposition in question, are made apparent. This prevents crimes in the strict sense of the word by anticipation, instead
of waiting for examples to prevent them by punishment.
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