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Indirect Legislation

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from this class into the first. Of this Under this head
come the offences, if such they were to be deemed,
which consist in the sale of poisons. Of this
nature too are all those offences which on a former
occasion have been distinguished by the appellation
of offences through calamity, Ch. 16. Division. 17.
and which have been dismissed
as not coming within the design of this the present essay.
An offence of this sort stamp is created as often as any regulation
is made which comes under that division of the laws
of police which takes the prevention of calamities for its object.
The fourth are what may be termed evidentiary offences: offences which
afford a presumption whether mischievous or no
of themselves afford a presumption of the past actual
commission of others which are mischievous. Thus By an English statute
a certain sort of behaviour on the part of a woman is made punishable
as murder, under the notion of its affording a conclusive evidence of
the perpetration of infanticide.
Thus again
By another
the going armed and disguised in certain numbers
in with arms and under in disguise is made penal capital in
certain circumstances under the notion of its being
evidentiary of a design formed at least if not executed
of committing homicide or other corporal violences
in opposition defence of contraband goods against the
attacks of justice: as it is By a third statute a similar behaviour is made capital in other circumstances
by another statute under the notion of its being accessory to robbery
and such other violences as may come to be
committed in prosecution of that crime. Thus By a
also fourth the having stolen goods in one's possession stolen goods of certain descriptions 15. E. C.2. c.2. Wood
15. G.2. c.27. Woolen goods left to dry on tenters.
29 G.2. c.30. §.2 Lead &
certain other metals
without
being able to give an account of the manner in "a good account how he came by
them" which they were obtained is b also made penal under
the
a

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Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	174	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
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