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Servants. Carriers. Artisans. EMBEZZLEMENT
The boundaries of no sort of Authority were at that time defined by those limitations which experience & more accurate examination reflection has gradually suggested.
He is ordinarily forth-coming It is unnecessary
& responsible:+ + you have given judgement in favor of his sufficiency by the very circumstance of refusing the trust in him:
there was always a time when he had a lawful posses title
to the possession of your property: it is may be difficult It is dangerous, however to determine in many cases whether the trust he has put it to which he has
debated it to are contrary repugnant <add>inconsistent with</add> to the [nature of] the interest in it which you communicated to him;
[supposing that done], it may beagain difficult to ascertain at what precise period the diversion
commenced: at any rate he was of your own choosing, & the loss you have any way by his means is unkind consequence of your want own neglect of preparation:
the incident affords no equal inference of danger to those who are better on their
guard.
The spirit of social intercourse would be damped & men would be reluctant to form connections of business & friendship, if the track danger was made brought to border so closely upon the track in which these connections they these connections [would]must must engage them.
circumstance allof which are apt to concurr in what may be deemed a breach of trust, & which
conspire in establishing a difference [in point of mischief] between that & those acts of flagrant & promiscuous spoliation, depradation at
are what occurr to the mind on the hearing of the word "Theft", [& consequently in point of expediency
of punishment]
It was probably some confused perception of these differences that influenced the distinctions of
All these objections are obviated by the power given to the Jury of determining whether there was a pertinence of Title. - This would be as good a Rule to govern every particular case as every particular case would could be for another
these eminent Lawyers or this Law: [but they are not altered <add>for most part</add> and the Law is contrary -re 3d Inst. tho' we must not expect to see them brought forth into view, and
on by persons unaccustomed ie little accustomed to assume any thing that belongs [mainly] to the of utility
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for the professed arrived upon measures [in the room of doing <add>an belonged to</add> of their [opinions] decisions. [unless it be the great and standinguish
of adhering to former decisions which deservedly claims their attention in preeminence indeed but
not in exclusion of every other.]
It became to be perceived found [or at least it might have been observed, that in Relation to servants men have not their choice option; they can not [in their choice of objects of a certain kind of confidence go out of that class of men which is are - exposed comparative indigence exposes to the temptation to abuse it; characteristic marks of the cautious wrongful conversive 2 are become 3 gradually brought into view by reflected & understood recorded by aflicted : the altering of the form of the subject changing of it's usual place the prevention or the plight of the malefactors!
As if a servant make his Masters Sheets into Shirts for himself, or put a Spoon of into his own Box among his own things or being asked after it denies the having it when he has concealed it, or when if he goes off with it.
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