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8 C Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent obtainment Of Offences against Property

Theft Embezzlement and Sharping all are indistinguishable A man who cannot read going by a dwelling
house finds a bank note lying immediately under the
window. Having occasion for a piece of paper he
takes it up imagining it to be an ordinary scrap of paper
and not suspecting it be of any value worth regarding

This being the case it will be allow'd that he has not
stolen it

He is just going to throw it away : but another person
seeing it tells him what it is: He then determines to keep
it. From the time of this determination then he has
embezzled it. had he known at the time he picked it
up that it was Bank note his offence would have been
Theft. But what difference would there have been in these
two cases with respect to the demand for punishment?

A Traveller goes into a room in an Inn sees a tea
spoon upon the Table and without calling for any thing
puts it in his pocket and makes off with it. This is what
every body would call Theft. Had the waiter brought it in
upon the travellers calling for tea, this according to the devisions—

Identifier: | JB/072/094/004 "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	094	Info in main headings field	of offences against property
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [with crown] [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23711
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