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Of Theft or Stealing

From p.2.

2. It matters not whose property it be: who Nor whose property it be whether
it belong to a single individual, to an assemblage
of individuals, to a body corporate, to the government
or to the public at large:nor in short in what manner
the property of it be parcelled out.

3. Nor although the offender himself have
an interest in it: (so as the other criminative circumstances
do but concur.) As if a man to whom a
thing is to belong tomorrow a year hence, takes it privily today:
or as if, having delivered a thing to a man to keep
for you, you take it back privily with a view
to charge him with the value.

Instructions to the Legislator

Here is the place for the Game Laws to come
in. If it be thought ^ fit proper to give the property
of certain wild animals wherever found to the owner
of the soil, the taking them under the criminative
circumstances of theft, will be perfectly of the
nature of theft. If it be thought fit to bestow it upon parcel it
out up among any numbers of persons of a certain description
indiscriminately to wit by giving the property of every such animal to whichever of such persons can first receive it, the case is perfectly the same. Which
of these dispositions is the most expedient, or whether
there may be and what other that would be more so, are questions
that belong not to the criminal penal branch of the
law, but to the laws of Property.

Identifier: | JB/071/047/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field	of theft or stealing
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23450
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