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6) Pers:l Injuries. Strictures

Assault can be made without force: which that is no defence at all.
All that the By laying hands gently upon a man gently
and no otherwise than gently what you may do is to intimate
to him that it is your wish he should get about
his business, which is what speaking to him telling him so
will do altogether as effectually: if he would will not
go for bidding upon being bid but stays till you compel him to go,
how by much a gentle touching he should be forced to go,
how "gentleness" should operate compulsion is more
than one can conceive.

The physical idea be that is annexed by the Lawyers
to the word assault being thus perpetually upon the shifting and
moving change, all the notion you can get from what they
say of an assault is that it is such an act of acts
that are exercised upon a man's person or done in
the view of bringing some body in contact with his
person, or of intimating an intention to bring some body in contact with his person it is such an act as the Law [is well used to] punish.
but how among these to know an act one which the Law will
punish from one which it will not punish is what
than more than is to be learnt from any thing they
tell you: It is the old circle — Enquire of these What is the act
which the Law will punish — why after a great
deal of talking backwards and forwards a multitude
of Latin phrases hard words and contradictions, it turns out
to be what? just such an act as the Law will
punish.

In using making use of the word assault they can think of nothing
but force and violence: so that hence attempts on which no force
is used are to go unpunished.

Identifier: | JB/072/156/002 "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	156	Info in main headings field	pers:l inj:s - strictures
Image	002	Titles	assault
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5 / e6 / e7 / e8
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	23773
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