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Forfeiture of Reputation.
6. By oblique insinuation

6. A sixth expedient is by transferring or at least endeavouring
to transfer upon one offence the measure of disrepute
that naturally attends upon another. The way in
which this is done is by affecting to regard the obnoxious
offence practice in question as an evidence of another practice on
what which men are already in the habit of bestowing a superior
degree of disrepute.(a) It is plain that the cases in
which this can be attempted with any prospect of success must

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Note

(a) Of this we have an example in certain Law of Zaleucus
the Locrian Legislator pretended to have been preserved (says my
authority) by Diodorus Siculus. "Let not a free woman go forth
from the City in the night, unless when she goes to prostitute
herself to her gallant. Let her not wear rich ornaments or
garments interwoven with gold unless she be a Courtezan."
Princ: of Pen. Law. c. 26.

This was as much as to say that if he knew of a
woman's going abroad in a lone place at the unseasonable
Hours he is speaking of, he, the Legislator, should take it for
granted that such was the errand she went out upon. If she
dressed in a manner in which it was particularly the business
of Courtezans to dreſs he should take for granted her being of that stamp.



Identifier: | JB/141/105/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

8-9

Box

141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

105

Info in main headings field

forfeiture of reputation

Image

002

Titles

note

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f7 / f8

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

48322

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