JB/087/050/002

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Indirect Legislation

Non-Seducing

Wagers

and a bond taken from him under such a penalty
on the other.

[It is evident then that] if wagers were
held valid allow'd of without restriction, bribery of all
kinds would receive the sanction of law, (a) and
liberty would be given men to engage accomplices
for all sorts of crimes. [On the other hand]
if wagers were disallowed of without restriction
insurances would be prevented, and thereby trade
impeded, and one great source stopped up from
whence relief is administered to the several calamities
to which human affairs are subject: for
insurance is but a species mode of wagering.

The proper medium then seems to be this:
forbid the practise In all cases in which it
In all cases except that of insurance is capable of being made a source an instrument of mischief
without answering in any useful purpose, forbid
it absolutely: in cases where as in insurance
it is [capable of being made use of as wanted for the purpose
an instrument of relief allow of it in the main,
leaving it to the judge, to make the proper
exceptions [wherever he finds] if in any case he should find it made use of as
a cloak to subornation.

Identifier: | JB/087/050/002 "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	002	Titles	offences of all kinds
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27575
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