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Indirect Legislation § 10

Mischief

with a view to the precluding [jointly] the inclination
and the power to do the act. The party
is convened before a magistrate and by way
of warning a the particular punishment is denounced to him in quality
and in quality, which
which
in case of his persisting in carrying into giving execution
to his obnoxious intentions, is to be inflicted on
him

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But in cases where
the mischief consists
in loss of
reputation as in
[the self regarding
offences that consist
in ] incontinency
is effected
by maintaining
secrecy

There is one very particular case which, with
regard to the method to be taken for the prevention
of the mischief of the act, stands upon it's own
bottom. In general the great object is to bring about
detection: here the object is to prevent it:
since it is from the detection rather than from the
act that the mischief takes it's rise. I mean
the case of seduction or taking it more largely
of concubin what is commonly called fornication (a)
NOTE
(a) Fornication (from fornix a brothel) was in the original sense of the word was confined
to the case where the woman was a was a
common strumpet and the scene a brothel.
when it is threatened with detection by the delivery
circumstances of pregnancy and parturition is
the consequence. In this case there are two sets
of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	3-7
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
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