JB/073/007/001

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DEFAMATION. Words.

According to the doctrine which for a long time
prevailed, a man who would vent Scandal
against another so as to subject himself to
the chastisement of the Law, must have studyed hard that
Law for words, to do it in, & then it would be a great chance whether he would succeed.

The emphaticalness of the expression instead
of heightening was formed, when subjected to
the absurd lists which the Lawyers of those
days, had set up, only to have utterly destroyd
the effect

While these continued it was mere fraud & imposition upon the subject
to tell him that the Law gave would give him
compensation for the loss of an injury to his good name,
when for one case in which this injury compensation could be
given obtained in ten others the injury would be aggravated
by the expences of a fruitless application
Major If ever there was a perjur'd man in England, thou art one: Minor but there has been a perjurd man in England; in Conclusion Therefore thou art one. I do not know whether even this would have satisfied all of them: they might want his name.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field	defamation words
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[partial motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	23847
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