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the same stick may be more dangerous to an infant than to
a person grown: to a person in a bad state of health than
to a person in a good state of health.
3. Probability of a persons being within reach 5. Upon the probability there is that any such persons
will be within the reach of it. Then it will argue a greater
degree of heedlessness to throw any thing out of a house
into a public street than into an unfrequented road: into
a public street in which a Fair or Market is then holding
than into a public another <add>the same</add> street at another time; in a dark night among a
crowd than in the middle of the same crowd in open day;
or to leave a paper of white arsenic along with papers of
fine powdered sugar in a grocer's Shop,than along with
rubbish in a dust-hole or in a manufactory where arsenic
is well known and frequently employed.
Main Text
Case 3 III. Where the damage is partially unintentional It is still an Excuse extenuation if the intention was, not to
occasion the degree of personal damage eventually produced,
but a lesser (A) only.
Exposition
[(A) Lesser] As if meaning only to put a man to a little
present pain you knock him down whereupon he falls
against a stone and breaks his arm in such manner thathe
Identifier: | JB/071/009/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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