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<head>C 39</head> | |||
<head>Of Co-offenders</head> | |||
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<p><note>Five sorts of persons whose claims are nearly equal</note> There are five <add>different</add> sorts of persons whose claims<lb/> | |||
to this appellation <add>seem to</add> approach <del>a</del> so near to an equality<lb/> | |||
as not to <sic>admitt</sic> of any other than a mere arbitrary<lb/> | |||
decision. These are 1. the prime mover: <add>or author +</add> <note>+ See ff. 7.</note> 2.<lb/> | |||
the characteristic offender: <note>See ff. 49</note> 3. the person <del>principally <add>chiefly</add></del> <add>naturally</add><lb/> | |||
<add>& chiefly benefited:</add> <note>See ff.</note> <del>interested in point of profit:</del> 4. the ringleader. <note>See ff. 28</note> 5.<lb/> | |||
the perpetrator. <note>See ff. 4.</note> The titles which they have respectively<lb/> | |||
to produce are: 1. the <del>ringleader</del> prime mover, <del>f</del> priority<lb/> | |||
of endeavour: 2. the characteristic offender, peculiarity<lb/> | |||
of situation: 3. the person <del>chiefly</del> <add>naturally</add> benefited, <del>p</del><lb/> | |||
<add>peculiarity of interest: 4.</add> the ring-leader, superiority of exertion: 5. the perpetrator,<lb/> | |||
actual <add>& immediate</add> perpetration. In <add>the</add> discussion of all these discordant<lb/> | |||
claims an advocate might find matter for disputation<lb/> | |||
without end: but the business of <del>a</del> <add>the</add> legislator is not<lb/> | |||
to raise controversies, but to quiet them.</p> | |||
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<p><note>The person naturally <sic>benefitted</sic> by the offence is he to whom belongs the natural profit of it</note> It may of use to understand clearly who is<lb/> | |||
the person naturally <sic>benefitted</sic> by each <del>crime</del> offence.<lb/> | |||
Every offence that is intentionally committed must be<lb/> | |||
attended with a profit or supposed profit: else it<lb/> | |||
could not be committed: for there would be no motive<lb/> | |||
for committing it. But this profit may be either<lb/> | |||
natural or artificial. By the natural profit is<lb/> | |||
to be understood that which accrues of course upon<lb/> | |||
the arrival of the obnoxious <del>event</del> event. By the <add>artificial</add></p> | |||
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C 39
Of Co-offenders
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Five sorts of persons whose claims are nearly equal There are five different sorts of persons whose claims
to this appellation seem to approach a so near to an equality
as not to admitt of any other than a mere arbitrary
decision. These are 1. the prime mover: or author + + See ff. 7. 2.
the characteristic offender: See ff. 49 3. the person principally chiefly naturally
& chiefly benefited: See ff. interested in point of profit: 4. the ringleader. See ff. 28 5.
the perpetrator. See ff. 4. The titles which they have respectively
to produce are: 1. the ringleader prime mover, f priority
of endeavour: 2. the characteristic offender, peculiarity
of situation: 3. the person chiefly naturally benefited, p
peculiarity of interest: 4. the ring-leader, superiority of exertion: 5. the perpetrator,
actual & immediate perpetration. In the discussion of all these discordant
claims an advocate might find matter for disputation
without end: but the business of a the legislator is not
to raise controversies, but to quiet them.
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The person naturally benefitted by the offence is he to whom belongs the natural profit of it It may of use to understand clearly who is
the person naturally benefitted by each crime offence.
Every offence that is intentionally committed must be
attended with a profit or supposed profit: else it
could not be committed: for there would be no motive
for committing it. But this profit may be either
natural or artificial. By the natural profit is
to be understood that which accrues of course upon
the arrival of the obnoxious event event. By the artificial
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