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B.1. CRIMES in general Ch. 1 1 Of the several tasks performable &c.

The word Offences carries a reference to some Law
whereby the act so denominated is supposed to
be forbidden under a penalty. It is plain therefore that every act whatever may be an offence.

The word Crime where it means refers to any thing more than the writer's own feelings or opinion carries a reference to the
general disapprobation or of the speaker writing of the Society By the Society in this case is most commonly meant that Political State i:e: portion of Society, being usually that of which he is a member, which the writer keeps principally in view during his discourse, or it may mean Mankind at large: it i:e: the majority of Political States which of these two meanings it be, must is generally determinable only by the context: it is very often the case, that the distinction has not occurred to the writer himself: the Idea of his own particular Society, swallowing up, as it is apt, that of every other.supposed
to be bestowd on the act in question, which disapprobation is further supposed to exist in an
intense degree

In general it's strictest & most usual ordinary acceptation it supposes
the act of which it is predicated to be also
an Offence — & thus it is we say, that Murder
is a crime — In a Rhetorical & abusive improper
acceptation an this suppostion is sometimes omitted.
& thus it it we say, that Ingratitude is a
crime: not meaning thereby that Law for an
act of that sort there is any penalty by Laws

In general, the act to which this latter denomination
is attributed, is supposed to be wrong,
& very wrong; & this whatever be the standard or criterion

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of wrongness, a question in which of itself it this denomination
leaves untouched. Thus he who says, that

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Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	introduction. crimes. offences sins &c
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