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72 THEFT

a greater Degree: Questions are started to what
Degree, in what Instances, to what Purposes it's
Violation may be permitted— The Word is warped
aside and turns technical — Men lose their
Confidence in their Conception of it's Import—
Glosses and Explanations and Modifications &
Restrictions become necessary to keep it streight;
and the Definition loses that Simplicity &
Conciseness the effectuating of which was the
sole purpose of its Fabrication.

Endless would be the Enumeration of such
Phrases, as, seeming at first Sight to answer
the purpose of covering guilt in every Case and
at the same Time of excluding Innocence, would
be found on a closer Inspection not to do so —
Sensible of the Difficulty and Delicacy of the Task,
I dare not promise, that such as I have respectively
adopted for this and the subsequent Definitions, are
for a certainty, in no Instance, of the Number.

Meanwhile I have entered into this Discussion
for the Sake of shewing how anxious a
Circumspection is necessary In the Selection and

Identifier: | JB/073/071/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field	theft
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f72 / / f74 /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23911
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