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<head>Frauds relative to the Coin.</head><!-- indent. Please note font is of varying size, and considerably larger than main text font --> | |||
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<p><note>Regulating Kindred-Arts</note> exercise of it might be laid under certain restrictions . For instance | |||
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no man might be allowed to use the instument in | |||
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question without a licence: nor should any man who was allowed to use <add>it</add> be allowed to keep it by him at all times ; it | |||
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might be kept under several keys of which an officer, to | |||
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be appointed for the purpose , should have one , so as not to | |||
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be sued but in his presence. | |||
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<p><!-- indent -->As to the mere Act of Coining considered by itself | |||
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the chance of convicting a man of it upon direct proof is comparatively | |||
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very slender ; such proof unless by some very extraordinary | |||
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accident is never to be had but from the testimony | |||
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of some of the confederates. This is owing to the particular | |||
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nature of the act which, however mischievous it | |||
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may be in its design and consequences, yet not being the | |||
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very act from which the mischief immediately takes its | |||
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birth is never in any <sic>likelyhood</sic> of being performed in presence | |||
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of any of the parties who come afterwards to be injured | |||
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by it : by which circumstance that source of testimony is en<add>tirely</add> | |||
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15
C
Frauds relative to the Coin.
Regulating Kindred-Arts exercise of it might be laid under certain restrictions . For instance
no man might be allowed to use the instument in
question without a licence: nor should any man who was allowed to use it be allowed to keep it by him at all times ; it
might be kept under several keys of which an officer, to
be appointed for the purpose , should have one , so as not to
be sued but in his presence.
As to the mere Act of Coining considered by itself
the chance of convicting a man of it upon direct proof is comparatively
very slender ; such proof unless by some very extraordinary
accident is never to be had but from the testimony
of some of the confederates. This is owing to the particular
nature of the act which, however mischievous it
may be in its design and consequences, yet not being the
very act from which the mischief immediately takes its
birth is never in any likelyhood of being performed in presence
of any of the parties who come afterwards to be injured
by it : by which circumstance that source of testimony is entirely
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Identifier: | JB/071/163/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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071 |
penal code |
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163 |
frauds relative to the coin |
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003 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f13 / f14 / f15 / f16 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]] |
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caroline fox |
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23566 |
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