JB/071/113/002

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Attempts to commit Rape.

of the state

Punishment for the Immediate attempt For attemptingthe immediate attempt to commit a Rape
by actual violence the principal offender shall be punished as follows
Instead of the afflictive punishment for Rape
he shall be imprisoned or confined to Hard
Labour for not less than half a year: and
during that his imprisonment that time he shall be utterly
secluded from the society of the other sex.
In other respects he shall be punished as for
Rape.

— for the remote attempt For attempting to committ a Rape without
For the remote attempt to committ a Rape
the offender shall be punished half as much
as for the immediate.

Remote attempt, what The remote attempt to committ a
Rape is where a man unlawfully confines
a woman with intent to force her by hardships
or actual violence to let him have carnal
knowledge of her.

The reason for this punishment is obvious:
it being that kind of punishment, of which the prospect
at the junction of time that he is under the temptation
to committ the offence is likely to affect him most.
The of Upon the principle of analogy, it
carries the appearance of equity by repressing the
gratification of that appetite which he had endeavoured
to abuse.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	113	Info in main headings field	of forcible marriage attempts to commit rape
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23516
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