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Of Offences against Reputation in general

Suggestions to the Legislator If a man attack with Defamation or verbal abuse a
whole sect or other class or community of men he may be punished
for the general damage at the suit of the prosecutor general,
and for any special damage as also for the general at
the suit of any particular person of that Sect, Class or Community
or not by whom any such damage has been sustained.
As if a man report knowing it to be false that the Jews of such a place have taken a Christian Child and circumcised it, whereby a mob rises and commits outrages on the person of a Jew, or damages the goods of another person supposing them to belong to the Jew.

Instructions to the Legislator.

In settling the Law relative to this and the preceding
head these are two great dangers to be avoided; on the one
hand the leaving the reputation of an innocent man in
any respect at the mercy of his enemy; on the other hand the
destroying or weakning the power of the moral or popular sanction: that
salutary power which tends to restrain men from actions pernicious
to the community, by the dread of its displeasure. Reproach Vituperation


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Identifier: | JB/072/031/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-5

Box

072

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

031

Info in main headings field

of offences against reputation in general / of unlawful /reproach / vituperation /

Image

001

Titles

instructions to the legislator

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23648

Box Contents

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