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Click Here To Edit CRIMES DIVISION from MOTIVES
An Historical Chart after Priestly:
wherein out of the original common Law
division of High Treason Petty Tr. Felony
& this demeanour are the gradual diminishing
no common Division cring up of Misdemeanours
into Felony
& Treason, a of
acts not originally
misdemeanours.
Division of Crimes
1st from their Morturis
2 Their effects on the injured
3d The manner of their affecting accomplishing
their object their end.
Their degree of Guilt
34 Graduation. {Original or radical
5th from their Origin are either {
(Excretitous or Parasitical
That from their degree will not do
for all some Orders being increase
erable in respect of mischief with others
Primitive
{original which must be change]
the same
Crimes {Excretitious} growing
{Parasitical} arises out of
{Derivative
the system of prosecution.
or (Aboriginal
{Parasitical
Accessaries to all Crimes may
be from Avarice
The common [Blackstone's division
very imprecise & unsatisfactory &
would beappear more obscure were it in
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Crimes, makingtrusting the difference of motives may for a source of division may
be consider'd as lost generated by the abuse of the Passion of Lusts Hatred &
Avarice.
[Integrally - diffusive — PartitoRamosely-diffusive]
AVARICE
Larceny
Robbery
Burglary
Piracy - Particular Code
Most Forgeries
Coining Qu. Particular Codes
False pretences
Cheating by False Weights
Measures
Cheating at Play [This is less than ye
other as wanting
Terror - persons
the
]
Fraudulent Bankruptcy.)
Particular Code
Usary —
HATRED
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} Avarice
} whether there
} is a
} competition
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Inundation} 13
1 Mischief Clandestine} Avarice
} when there
} is a
} competition
2 Mischief with force}
3Mayhem
Disfigurement
Wounding
Battery
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Assault
5
Challenging [Accessories here not to be punished
[because that would only make
[guards conducted more secretly & prevent
[that interposition of seconds &c which often terminate them happily.
Riots
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Striking in Courts
Law — The Peace in a room for in Kings presence of the Place is sacred-
7 The hand that striketh here shall be cut off!!
to be up injected with Wax
AVARICE & HATRED
House burning
Arson of Houses 21
8 Imprisonment { before Warning
22 {after Warning
Kidnapping 23 {against the
{Habeus Corpus
9 Riots Riots 24 {Act.
With consent } False money
given are a } False weight
false hypothesis } False within Evidence Pay
Cheating } False Pretences
by } False Play
LUST
Rape {An advantage of Castration}
{is that it bears so conspicuous}
{a relation to the Crime, that}
{the slightest notice 30 is }
{sufficient to fix it in the }
{memory never to be forgotten}
Carnal Knowledge of of 31 Infants
[Crimes called unnatural.]
LUST & AVARICE
Polygamy. 32
LUST AVARICE & AMBITION
High Treason in Defiling Females
allied to the Crown. 33*Qu.
SELF-PRESERVATION
—
Irregularity in Plague
This may be omitted, & provided for
by him
Escapes 34
Returning from Banishment.
Particular
AVARICE HATRED & SELF-PRE
Homicide
Homicide
Bribery active [giving Bribes]
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