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24 Feb 1802 1 §11 Difference between Suppression of Document & Forgery

1 10(a) The words by which this letter is
tried for their object, the provoking Mr
Ling,
Confront with 1.10 disarmed
if possible, suppressing it. Whether they were productive
of the intended effect might be ascertained,
if it should it was because objections of to Parliament
to whether to what a degree the grounds of the divisions
taken by either principal department of the Executive
1
The difference between
suppression mala fide of documents
and Forgery lies not
in the mischief but
in the article of punishment —
and that of facility
of proof

Government, have been, and unless
not taken to of prevention or exempt
in the batch of falsified by the Secretaries.

In point of effect and moral imputation, injury
done by the suppression of a document that would
have prevented it is much the same thing, with
The difference is in
the of the
proof of mala fides
because suppression may be
through inattention .

the same injury done, by means of a spurious
document, forged for the purpose of fabricating a
pretense for it a justification for the injury. The mala fides
the criminal injurious intention
accompanied with
the circumstances
of criminative consciousness
In
its logical description, the act in this one case
is of the positive cast, in the other, of the negative
cast; but to all moral effects and purposes it
is in both cases the same. The difference is
only in the punishment: [-] [+] and in the facility of the proof. forgery, of a material document
being punishable perhaps I should suppose in such a
case with infamous punishment; suppression of
an equally material document, with the same injurious
intention, not: that is not with infamous
punishment: whether with any other is a question
to be left submitted to the fresh opinion determination of the proper
judges.



Identifier: | JB/121/184/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 121.

Date_1

1802-02-24

Marginal Summary Numbering

1

Box

121

Main Headings

Panopticon

Folio number

184

Info in main headings field

Difference between Suppression of Document & Forgery

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.

Page Numbering

D1

Penner

Watermarks

1800

Marginals

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Jeremy Bentham

Paper Produced in Year

1800

Notes public

ID Number

001

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