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C 5.
Offences against the external Security of the State.
can affect him: provided that those possessions can be seized.
4 — by reason of Religion 4. As to punishment by reason of religion. The circumstance
of your being perswaded that it is in the power of another
man or a set of men to subject you to punishment in a future
life gives that man or set of men a means of influencing
your conduct in as far as the apprehension of
any such punishment can affect you: and this must be
the case as well in one part of the globe as in another.
The same man may be subject to many jurisdictions at once. It is evident that these four different jurisdictions
may be possessed by four different states: a man may
therefore be to a certain degree under the jurisdiction of four
different states at once. He may in truth be under the
jurisdiction of any number of states at once: since he
may have his reasons for wishing to reside at different
times in the dominions of different states; and since his
possessions may be scattered within the dominions of different
states at one and the same time.
That which is derived from Residence is the most coercive. Of all these kinds of Jurisdiction the most coercive
is commonly be that which results from residence. 1. Because The Punishments
which constitute this species of Jurisdiction being the
most operative. 2. Because to this the other jurisdictions are commonly at
Identifier: | JB/072/048/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
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penal code |
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offences against the external security of the state |
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[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]] |
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