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20. C Simple Corporal InjuriesOf Extenuations
it has to excite resentment. Accordingly a personal insult
or an act of defamation will commonly constitute a more provoking
injury than an act of theft.
Provocation when to be accounted Recent. [(B) Recency] 1. At the same distance in point of time, a provocation
may be recent or not, according to the magnitude
thereof. A heavy provocation may be recent when a slight
one could would not be so. For the most part however a provocation
is not to be deemed a recent one if it have been received
more than a [month] before the injury for which
it is alledged.
Time at which a provocation is to be deemed to have been received. 2. The time at which a provocation shall be deemed to
have been received, is the time at which it came to the
knowledge of the party to whom it is a provocation:
For it is not till then that it can have begun exciting
his resentment.
— how it may have been received. 3. Also, any circumstance, materially adding to the malignity
of the injury, and coming to light after the rest, may
may be deemed to have received it: As if you hear that
a man has beaten your son, and a month after hear
that your son has lost his leg arm by the beating; or that the
man, being armed, fell upon your son unarmed and beat him
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