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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
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