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Of Excuses Extenuations
The several circumstances which may of being
be pleaded</del>
in extenuation of an act which is an offence
against the person if an individual these
which offences are General extenuations are as follows: these which follow:
1. Want of intention.
2. Ignorance of the law.
3. Innocence of intention.
4. Intoxication.
5. Compulsion
6. Influence of Authority
Case 1. Where the Damage is compleatly unintentional and there is no heedlessness
The compleatest excuse extenuation is where the author of the damage had
no intention (A) to occasion any personal (B)part of the damages damage whatsoever to the party
(C) to whose person damage eventually ensued. In such case the
author the damage, if no heedlessness (D) be chargeable to him is
exempt from all punishment. But he may be bound to make
compensation which may be adequate or partial, according to
the circumstances of the parties.
Exposition
[(A) Intention] If the act itself was altogether involuntary unintentioned this is a ground
of exemption. see Tit [Exemptions]
(B) Personal
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