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C 7.

Of Semi-public Offences in General.

calamities can have any direct effect. Nor even can this distinction be
of any use in distinguishing the calamities themselves. Pestilence or
Contagion may indeed be distinguished into that which threatens
the persons of men, and that which threatens the Animals that
are their property, and the doing any thing by which the danger
of the first kind of pestilence and that alone may be increased,
will be purely an offence against person. But upon the plan
of division one can hardly take another step. Famine considered
at a certain period is a calamity that affects the person; but if
it comes at length to affect the person, it is only by its having
first affected property. Of noxious animals some indeed are destructive
to men's property, at the same <add>without threatening any</add> that there no mischief to their persons:
but others, such as the stronger kinds of carniverous animals
are equally formidable to men and cattle. man and beast. And as to Collapsion,
Inundation, Tempest, Blight, Conflagration, and Explosion, it is
plain that to these calamities, man and every thing that is subservient
to the use of Men, stand alike exposed.

Calamities best divided according to their Objects and their Sources. For judging whether the enumeration is compleat the most commodious
division seems to be that which results from considering the
subject in two points of view successively: viz. 1. With regard to the
objects which they may more immediately affect. 2. With regard to
the sources from whence they may be derived have issued. The

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Identifier: | JB/071/129/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	129	Info in main headings field	of semi-public offences in general
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23532
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