JB/087/050/001

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Indirect Legislation

Non-seducing

Any Offences of all kinds

Whenever a man lays a wager on the
affirmative side concerning the happening of
any event, he has an interest to the amount
of the wager in the taking place of such event.
If the event be of the number of those which are
looked upon as being
of a pernicious or dangerous
nature either in themselves
or in the case of their
pernicious, either looked upon as being attended with pernicious consequences attended with of the pernicious of themselves or upon their
being brought about by such means, As in case of Bribery
Simony, sale of civil
offices not allow'd to be
sold, &c.
and at insomuch
as that the acts which appear to have a tendency to give
birh to them in such circumstances are forbidden, and
is in his power to contribute to the production
of it such event , he has thereby an interest [given him] in
the commission of an offence. In this case
he is stimulated to the engaging in such an
offence by a double force: by a force in
the nature of a reward and by a force in
the nature of a punishment: by the force of reward
in virtue of that which in case of the happening
of the event he is entitled to receive: by
the force of punishment in virtue of that which in the
opposite contingency he stands engaged to pay.
It is as if a man were suborned by the
promise of so much money on the one hand:
and

Identifier: | JB/087/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	offences of all kinds
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27575
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