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Of Personal Insults.
the presence of another is more or less injurious according as it
is more or less material to the party injured to stand well
in the esteem of such third person.
3. Sentiments of that Person. Also, according as from the sex, age, profession, or
other circumstances belonging to that person, the party injured
is likely to suffer more or less in his good opinion from
such a cause.
4. Number of persons present. A personal Insult, the more public it is, the more
injurious. It is the more public the greater the number is of
the persons in whose presence it is offered; and the greater the
number of other persons is, to whom by means of such
eye-witnesses it comes to be or is likely to be made
known.
5. Rank of the Party injured. To a gentleman, money alone is never to be deemed
a sufficient compensation; he can never be made amends but
by the humiliation of the Offender.
Other Aggravations are 1. Seniority of the party injured.
2. Superiority in point of natural domestic relationship. 3. Superiority
in point of conventional domestic relationship. 4. Imbecilliority in point of Sex. 5. Weakness of the party injured. 6. Multitude
Identifier: | JB/072/168/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
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penal code |
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168 |
of personal insults |
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003 |
exposition / justifications are / punishment / aggravations / excuses are / instructions to the judge |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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f1 / f2 / f3 / f4 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]] |
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caroline fox |
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