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6. C

Of Exemptions from Punishment.

For Infants under [...] Guardians how responsible.
commits any offence, if his misbehaviour appear to be
owing in any degree to any neglect on the part of his guardian, such guardian
may be bound to make compensation, adequate or
partial, and to pay a fine.

Exemption IV. Incurable bodily Infirmity.

1.

If any one committs an offence and either then labours under, or afterwards contract
involuntarily contracts any bodily infirmity, by reason of which
he either cannot undergo the punishment competent to the
offence at all, or not without imminent danger of his
life; and if if the infirmity appear either absolutely incurable,
or if it will not curable, not but at the end of an indefinite
length of time, the punishment may be changed or
mitigated into one which he is capable of bearing
without such danger: provided that it shall be in his
option to undergo instead thereof, if it be possible, the
punishment regularly competent to his offence.

2.

If the infirmity appear to be such as may be
cured within a moderate space of time, (for instance
half a year) such corporal punishment may be suspended for

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Identifier: | JB/098/014/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	6, 1, 1-3
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field	of exemptions from punishment
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31622
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