JB/071/159/003

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Of Simple Mercantile Defraudment Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent obtainment

Frauds mercantile only to be applied for the 3rd offence or in very gross cases
for the 2d.

The reason of (Giving) the latitude that is
given in point of duration to the to confinement to hard labour is that in cases
where the profit of the cheat was trifling the quantity of this
punishment if no greater than what would be in proportion
to the profit of the offence upon the rate above established
would be so small as that to a man who had already been
familarized to it by experience it would scarcely be an
object. As to the ignominious punishment, the use of
applying it is not so much the effect it may be expected to
have upon those to whom it is designed to be applied sometimes
in the first instance, as upon the others to whom
it is not designed to apply it but in case of a second or
3rd. offence. The punishment itself might be no great matter
to petty traders, who by shifting the scene might
take themselves in good measure out of the reach of Justice
but to responsible traders who have a Character and a set —

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Identifier: | JB/071/159/003"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	159	Info in main headings field	theft embezzlement and fraudulent obtainment
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 f27 / f28
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23562
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