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C 7

Offences against Condition Adultery Ins.

Facility — indifference "And do you love me so little as to bear to see
"me in the embraces of another."

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with the preservation of the species to forbid it
altogether and the man and his wife are once got into the habit of it it may be connived at when practised
at other times than when it is necessary and in
a greater proportion than that in which is absolutely
to the accomplishment attainment of that end.

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Mischief immediate Adultery = Theft The wife is in certain respects to a certain degree the property of
the Husband: the Husband is to a certain degree
the property of the Wife. Adultery there consider'd
in this point of view is a kind of Theft.

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The wife is in a certain degree the property the property of the Husband:
just as any one person who engages to render any
other kind of services to any other person, becomes
to a certain degree the property of that other person
in virtue of those services. Things are Things are become
men's property in virtue of the uses they may be
put to: persons become men's property in virtue
of the services they may be made to render. To cause
them to render the services they are capable of rendering
is in fact to put them to the uses they
are capable of being put to.

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Adultery exposes the husband to contempt Either the husband it is done with the permission
of the husband, is content it should be so, or he or it is not. If he is content
it is through some interested principle: if he is not
he is deceived. If he does not see his danger before
the mischief is done, it is want of sagacity:
if he sees it and does not prevent it, having as he has all the legal power that is necessary to enable it is want of him to prevent it

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Identifier: | JB/071/094/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	21-32
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	094	Info in main headings field	offences against condition - adultery
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23497
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