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C 1. Of Unlawful Threats Menacement.

N.B. 15 Aug. 1810. Menacement , if simple, belongs to Offences against the Person, Simple Personal
injuries : if conplete with insult to Offences against person and
reputation

Unlawful Threats defined. An 'Unlawful Threat Menacement is where a man is
intentionally (A) concerned (B) in giving You reason to
apprehend (C) that by his means some injury (D) will
be done to You.

Exposition. 1

[(A) Intentionally] That is when his intention is, not
only to do such acts as eventually prove the means of terrifying you , act in such or such a manner, but to produce
that very effect.

2

[(B) Concerned] See Tit: [Of Associates in Delinquency Co-Offenders]]

3

[(C) Reason to apprehend] 1. It matters not in
what way the threat is expressed No matter by what means. ; whether for instance in language as by speaking writing or
printing ; or by gestures ; or by emblematical or
imitative representations ; as by saying that You
will beat him , or shaking your fist at him: or
presenting a pistol at him ; or drawing his portrait
hanging, intimating withal that through your
means, such will be his fate.

4

It matters not whether the Threat be addressed to
the very person threatned or to any third person Nor whether addressed to the party.

5

It matters not whether the Threat be uttered nor whether in his in the

Identifier: | JB/072/039/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1	1810-08-15	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	039	Info in main headings field	of menacement
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::pro patria [britannia emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23656
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