JB/073/031/004

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Offences against the Coin

Danger of punishing Coiners more than Robbers is overtaken: and with respect to such old offenders punishing
theft more severely than robbery would have
no other effect than to turn a thief into a robber. This
is not the case with coiners. A man's being in the habit
of Coining may in general be looked upon as a presumption
of his possessing some honest art from which this
illicit practice is only an occasion deviation, and to
which if forced back by salutary terrors, he may at any
time return. A button maker or silversmith who has taken
to coining, although he should cease to coin,may continue
to subsist: he has only to confine himself to the proper
business of a silversmith or a button maker. If then a On pain <add>such a person therefore</add> punishment
A <add>a punishment such as that of scalding to death greater than even that
which is employed in France be hung over his head for robbery
it may have its effect, without driving him into the <add>ser commission
: practise of robbery the more atrocious offence: instead of driving him on to robbery
or murder it may only drive him back to buttonmaking.]

Identifier: | JB/073/031/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	offences against the coin
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46 / f47 / f48
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23871
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