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Bribery

From p. 1. no 1

Mischief of
Bribery in
general

Of Bribery it may be said in general
that it involves one of two mischiefsnecessarily one or other of two offences, mis-
management or abuse of trust, that is extortion. When committed
by persons in offices that concern the ad-
ministration of justice the mismanagement takesbears
the particular character of iniquity. If the
Judge decides more favourably for the briber
on account of the bribe than he would otherwise
it is iniquity; if not it is ex-
tortion. The briber would not have given his
bribe, if he had thought he could have got
the same favour would have been shownempty-handed.
him without it

NOTE Itwasis said to have been a maxim of that
illustrious compound of meanness and sublimity
the Ld. Chancellor Bacon, notnever to make
injustice triumph, but to take care however to make justice
pay. The offence as thus described was rather intention than ini-
quity.

To p. 7. No 2

From p. 7. no 2. In other respects It was only doing the same thingmischief
for his own benefit which the Legislators do
perhaps in all nations and upon a
as they to much larger scale, for the benefit so they imagine of
the state. 2

To p. 7. No 3
3This maxim of course was not divulged; if it
had been it would have frustrated it's own purpose.
The mischief therefore which was really produced, was
that of iniquity: the intimation of the design carried with it the
terror of the act.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 1-2, 1-3
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	bribery
Image	003	Titles
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