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This masterly regulation + + An instanceof indirect Legisla-tion adopted for the sake of sup-pressing the evil more effectuallyand really [not at less expense as in some other instance of indir. Legisln] has fallen under the displeasure of a later writer,[which he has] visiting its
in that sort of laconic aphorism an aphorism of that laconic sort<add>turn which announces self-evidence finds an expect in the such-most
it expresses which it conveys "Of the equal property says he might it be adjudged to be in
possession of a Pistol." His The two cases would be parallel, were it that true which is not
not properly deleterious so, that Pistols are only kept for the purposes of offence alone - The fact is that as every body kn for
one kept for those purposes, there are a hundred kept for that of safeguard.
Ask And of the Gunsmiths of whom there are so many is such a number in this Metropolis, which must<add>be
very much surprized at learning their customers are all Murderers & Robbers. The condition to which the
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is annexed is, the instruments being proper for that use onlyalone for if they are goodadast for
any thing else, the possessor will not suffer under the Act - & and if they are fit for nothing
else what should he do with them unless it is that? Now the condition to interwoven in the clause description of the offence, is a compleat guard. Except that the is not sufficiently protected by the letter of the Law - for "in his possession" they may be found. how this should The moment that it is defined
it is as just as clear, that he intended to make that use of them, as if he we
seen sodoing so. + And it is just as much more practicable that he had activally und them than that he had not, as the of daystime which a man may live beyond above manhood is greater that the number last time which it would take to dispose the apparance in order for working. [Just as it would be equally clear that a man intended to
supposing by his keeping pistols in his homeit were clear he did not do it with a idea to experiment, but it were
simply deleterious & of no use & were forof such a nature as to<add> be fatal to Mankind alone]

Ann. Register. 1771. p.108

May 13. A Grocer in this City (London]was committed to the Poultry Compter, for giving a
Customer a bad half Guinea in change, and refusing to exchange it for a good one.

The ingenuous Author of the Principles of Penal Law+ p.128 with becoming liberality of sentiment spirit exposed the preposterous confusion of Justice and of Language - I am but the echo of his sentiments when &c

This System of Offices having been used as an example under two normal heads of the preceeding
Book I write to make facilitate the understanding of the several observations in
them some example needed to be taken, much remains not to be said of it in this its proper place.

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