JB/070/221/001

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FORGERY

Forgery is — 1st to establish a false of a Title to property. 2dly of a to establish a false Title to condition. 3dly to defeat a Title to condition as in making counterfeiting destroying entries in marriage Registers
In this crime, the guilt, that is the quantity of the mischief produced is fixed & certain, not susceptible
of alleviation or aggravation. I mean the same, in under the loss of the same
Sum
Penalty proposed — One Whipping & an imprisonment for a year with labour for under fifty
Pounds — above that, of a year for every fifty Pound.

Forgery and Symbolical Larceny should extend to the same subjects 4. of Title to reputation in business, as by Manufacturers, of each other's mark. 5. of Immunition as in Mediterranean passes.
For the sake of adjusting the Punishment to responsibility In the instance of Forgeries
by Manufacturers of each other's mark, the Judges may have power to change the regular
punishment (for a first and 2d offence) into a Fine — to the profit of the King, if the Forgery
be to the detriment of the Revenue — to that of a private person, if it be to the detriment of a
private man.

One species of Forgery has not yet been mentioned: it is an offence of that sort, which are committed more immediately against the public: the putting off counterfeit reasons
for a Law bad Law For this [Chicaneries of this complexion] no punishment hath as yet been devised been thought of as yet by Legislators: but the
Public has a tribunal of its own, at which [such chicaneries are] they are neither unnoticed nor unaccused.

I dare not say what countenance this disingenuous & servile habit has received from great & recent
examples — that I need not In an age like this, such practices, if they are arts artifices are as vain, as

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if they are prejudices, they are ridiculous: for with liberty to make it way, way for it the light of reason
will burst forth, howsoever men labour to suppress it.

FORGERY. [BR][4]

Identifier: | JB/070/221/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	221	Info in main headings field	forgery
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23336
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