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Forfeiture of Reputation.

6. A ſixth expedient is by transferring or at least endeavouring to transfer upon one offence the measure of disrepute that naturally attends upon another. The way in which this is done is by affecting to regard the obnoxious offence practice in question as an evidence of another practice what which men are already in the habit of bestowing a superior degree of disrepute.(a) It is plain that the cases in which this can be attempted with any prospect of succeſs must

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6. By oblique insinuation

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(a) Of this we have an example in certain Law of Zaleucus the Locrian Legislator pretended to have been preserved (says my authority) by Diodorus Siculus. "Let not a free woman go forth from the City in the night, unleſs when she goes to prostitute herself to her gallant. Let her not wear rich ornaments or garments interwoven with gold unleſs she be a Courtezan." Princ. of Pen. Law. c. 26.

This was as much as to say that if he knew of a woman's going abroad in a lone place at the unseasonable Hours he is speaking of, he, the Legislator, should take it for granted that such was the errand she went out upon. If she dreſsed in a manner in which it was particularly the busineſs of Courtezans to dreſs he should take for granted her being of that stamp.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	8-9
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	forfeiture of reputation
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48322
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