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THEFT. 86

which is not Larceny, but Larceny and something
more. Robbers and Burglarers may be, and often
are, indicted only of the latter Crime.

It had been well if instead of losing his
Labour in these unnecessary Distinctions, he had
bestowed it on the discriminating of the Offence from
the six Species of Acts with which by the Epithet
fraudulent it is expressly confounded —
1 Embezzlement; 2 Personation; (at that Time
Offences only in a few Cases;) 3 False Pretences;
a very questionable Crime at that Time, if any,
except in the Instance of False Tokens; 4 False
Circulation; 5 False Weights and Measures; 6
Forgery.

The Author of the Commentaries has
therefore very properly in his Definition cut off these redundant
Clauses. of the other.

The Definition of the Civil Law, from
which this Epithet was taken is, "Fraudulenta
Contrectatio Lucri faciendi Gratia, vel ipsius
Rei, vel etiam usus ejus Possessionisve."## Instit. Tit. De Obl. quae delicto.

Sir

Identifier: | JB/073/074/002 "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	074	Info in main headings field	theft
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f84 / f86
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23914
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