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Offences against the external security of the State Ins.

safe-conduct is violated, or an Ambassador consulted
to forbid the Court of Justice from proceeding to
judgment till after having consulted the Sovereign,
& even to reserve to the Sovereign the power of
punishing the delinquent in an extraordinary manner at discretion, & even of
of giving him up this malefactor delinquent to the power
of the offended state. [a]

All this is not perfectly exact: but the exactness
of it depends so much upon the infinitely diversified
connections of particular states one with another,
that it would be to no purpose to attempt to make it
so.

NOTES

and of the war which began in '74 between Spain
and England.

[a] Every body knows that the want of such a powers in
the chief executive Magistrate had let was near plunging
England into a war with Persia to an at
the beginning of the present century.

In absolute Monarchies such as France & Spain
such power can not be wanting: but there may be a
want of it in such states or confederacies of states
in which the judicial power is not subordinate independent of the power
of making war and peace, as for instance in the Dutch provinces,
the Helvetic body, & in England. & till of late in Sweden.

Identifier: | JB/072/053/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	053	Info in main headings field	offences against the external security of the state
Image	003	Titles	notes
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23670
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