JB/087/173/003

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Theft domestic

By the French law, if a loose dictum which
seems to be but a loose one, is to be depended upon, v. Guy p. 50.
a locksmiths who "qui fait des fausses clefs a l'insen
des maitres, are punished capitally. In England
such an act could not be punished as an independent
offence, but in case of a theft such actually
committed it would be presumptive evidence afford a presumption
of complicity. The fausses clefs there mentioned
seemed to be duplicates of keys belonging to the
master of the house. But there are said to be
a sort of keys called pick-lock keys which
will open any common sort of lock without distinction.
If these could be sufficiently discriminated
from common keys the making, mending
keeping and using them might be prohibited:
provision made for smiths, to whom persons
upon the loss of a key or the breaking of it in the lock may have occasion to
apply to open the lock for their assistance . Servants upon their
entering into a family might be obliged to produce
upon oath all the keys they had, to be
marked by the master: after which if they had
any others of which they had not acquainted him
were found in their possession they might be
punished as for theft. Of course A fortiori the opening of
or attempting to open any lock without warrant
should might be made punishable, although nothing were
taken:

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	173	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
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