JB/071/002/001

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C 5. Of Justifications.

For the sake of the party hurt. saving him from a superior calamity otherwise unavoidable
and which could not be prevented at any cheaper rate,
so it be eventually attended with such effect, is done
with lawful cause. As if through accident or inddvertence
a man were standing at the brink of a shallow ditch within
the range of the sails of a large wind mill going
furiously, and You, having no time to warn him, push
him into the ditch.

2.

2. — the Author of the hurt. So if it be done to save yourself; As if being pursued by an adversary with a drawn sword in a narrow
passage, you run against a stranger and beat him
down: but in such case You are to make him Compensation.

3.

3. — or a third Person So if it be the means of saving a third person (as before):
but the assaulter shall make compensation to the
party assaulted, and receive that or more from the party
saved.

4.

4. — or the Neighbourhood. Much more if it be the means of saving a whole neighbourhood:
as if, through heedlessness or ignorance of the
danger, a man be running hastily with a lighted candle
into a room where there is a large quantity of gunpowder

Identifier: | JB/071/002/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2-4
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	of justifications
Image	001	Titles	instructions to the legislator / justification 4th defence / instructions to the legislator - analytical view
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23405
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