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Of Theft or Stealing
From p. 9

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For theft the punishment shall be as follows:
1. Penance more or less public. This at all events.
2. Penitential Imprisonment for not longer than
four weeks. This at discretion.
3. Confinement to hard-labour for three months
certain : and besides that for the space of a day
for every six-pence of the value of the thing
stolen.

paragraph

The advantage of this formulary seems to
be more apparent in the present example and
than in the a former given under Sit. [Simp.
Personal Injuries.]
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From p. 39
Question 1
Why hard labour is made an article in this
punishment for theft?
Reasons
For the sake of analogy, the Introd. Jit [Property]
^ or the love of case is most questionable readinginently the mo-
tive by which men are led to the commission
of this offence. This and pecuniary interest or
as it may here be called avarice covertousness are almost
the only motives from which it ever takes its raie.
It may be ascribed to avarice added textideas when, a
man could have got the thing in question by his
industry if he had chosen to exert it: to covertousness added textwhen

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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	003	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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