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Property compared intuit panae Offences against Property. Diffs. Off:s ag.st Property compared
intuitu ad panan

13

Circumstances favourable
to the
formation of the
several enterprises
against property

1. Physical facility
CIrcumstances non

2. difficulty
of detection 3 . small
danger of arrest 4 .
small danger of suffering
by defence

234

Circumstances
accusalilary motives unfavourable. 1.
physical difficulty 2,. danger
of detection 3. danger
of apprehension
4. danger of suffering
by defence

2

3 15

Quantum of mischief
in each.

4 13

A Sharper must
be unknown

5. 14

Sharping therefore
can only
be carried on in
great towns.

6 7

A thief need not
be unknown


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7. 15

More primary
mischief may be
done by Sharping
than by Theft
or Robbery

8 16

by Robbery
than by Theft

9 17

- by House Robbery
than by
Road-Robbery

10 12

Present danger
greater in Theft
than in Sharping
p.1

11 9

Facility sometimes
greater. p.1

2. do for

12 6.

More persons
may do for
Thieves than for
Sharpers or Robbers

13 87

More for Robbers
than Sharpers

134 78

Yet some may do
for Sharpers who
wont for robbers:
viz: boys & women

15*


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15 2

Offences of the
same motive
are .1. Theft
2. Embezzlement
3. Defraudment
4. Robbery
5. Homecide in certain
cases
5 Incendiarism

16 2*

Destruction and
Endamagement are
always offences
of a different motive
from the others.- viz: Ill-will.

17 18

Mere mischief
may be done to a given person by
confidential
sharping than
by ordinary.

18

But confidential
is more difficult:
requiring
labour for
sinuation, 2.
particular opportunities.3.
station in life
are in the way
to practice it.

19 20

Theft and
Sharping so
nearly alike
in mischief that
it is not worth
while to make
a difference in
punishment p.
7, 8. 9. 10. That difference


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19 20

could not operate
unless it were striking,
& then the
punishment for
Theft if great enough
would interfere
with that
of Robbery &c

20 15

Sharping may
therefore be combated
indirectly:
viz: by measures
of innolescince
See 5.

| 21 |

Theft Embezzlement
& Sharping commonly
indistinguishable :
viz:
even the act itself:
ergo the mischief.

22 10

A Thief to steal
particular articles
(ex. gr. under lock
& key) must have
particular opportunities.

23. 19

By cultivating
talents for Sharping
man may become
less bold & less fit
for Robbery

24

Mischief of house
Robbery arises
1. from increased
facility. 2. from
danger to person.


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25.

House - robbery Theft
by night produces
the pursuant
mischief of Robbery.

26

{ The great object
{ is to keep person
{ safe

{27.

{ With regard to
{property, to insure make
{ it, malefactors at the
{ paying the insurance.

{ 28.

{ Caution against
{ Fraud.

{ 29.

{ These need not be
{ a conclusive objection,
{ any more than in
{ other insurances.

{ 30

{ The Theft & Mischief insurance
{ tax should come
{ in aid of the fine
{ paid.

{ 31

{ And be separate
{ from other taxes:
{ which will take
{ away the appearance of { hardship.


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32

Subsequent Danger (from
the criminal)
greater in sharping
than in
unhabitual Theft
p.6.

33.

Alarm greater
from Theft than
Sharping. p.
6, 3.

34.

Persons liable to
offend.1. Servants.
2. Equal Acquaintances.
3. Strangers.

35

Depravity Presumption
of a habit is
least. 1. in
Theft by. 2. in
Simple mere. defraud.
3. in Defraud.
by standards.4.
in coinage. 5.
in Sharpers by
profession . Qu.

36.

Theft can affect
nothing but a
corporeal article
of property: Fraudulent
obtainment
may affect an
in corporeal object.
money or money's
worth, It may contend
to promises thin
as well as to
evidences of them


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See 21

36.

A man may obtain
a dignity by
fraud & tho he cannot
steal it for instance
a Knighthood,
a Patent of
Nobility &c: that is
he may by fraud
cause the certain services to
be render'd to him
as services by which
the dignity is conferred
on him.

This seems no reason
for punishing
it more than Theft
One sort of property
is attachable one
way another sort,
another


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People to be insured
against
malefactions. 1. by
malefactors: or
2.d by the state
M.8


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Comparative mischief

2.

On other accounts
comparative demand
for punishment:
For the me consult
[Proportion]

3

Indistinguishableness
of Theft. & Defraudment.

4.

Person uncompensible
- property compensable
by public.


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Identifier: | JB/072/090/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-36, 1-4

Box

072

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

090

Info in main headings field

offences against property - diss.

Image

001

Titles

Category

marginal summary sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23707

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