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C.
Of Punishments In General.
deprived of, or the benefit resulting from the extinction of
your right, it is an aggravated case of wrongful usurpation
orwrongful investment of property, or
of the attempts thereto respectively belonging. If
independently of the use it was if as a land-mark
the thing possessed a value worth regarding, as suppose
it were a hewn stone, or pieces of wrought timber of considerable
size, this circumstance constitutes a distinct
offence : to wit clandestine destruction if the thing were
destroy'd on the spot, theft if it were taken away.
to man has confined you suppose, for a minute or two
beating you during the time. If no other bad consequence
hasresulted to you fromfor the confinement than
the opportunity it gave him to be guilty of the
beating, and the pain and inconvenience experienced
at the time, the confinement and the beating
may be considered a simple corporal injury as but an offence: but if
any special bad consequence has resulted to you from
the mere circumstance of thedelay, for instance the
preventing you from taking your passage across
a ferry in your way to a place where you were to
go to receive some money, whereby you have lost
the money, it is a case of a simple personal injury
coupled with wrongful confinement.
Identifier: | JB/143/027/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
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