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<add>and</add> a bond taken from him under such a penalty<lb/>on the other.<lb/><p>[It is evident then that] if wagers were<lb/>held valid <add><sic>allow'd</sic> of</add> without restriction, bribery of all<lb/>kinds would receive the sanction of law, <hi rend="superscript">(a)</hi> <!-- There is no note <hi rend="superscript">(a)</hi> in the margin on this page --> and<lb/>liberty would be given ment to engage accomplices<lb/>for all sorts of crimes. [On the other hand]<lb/>if wagers were disallowed of without restriction<lb/>insurances would be prevented, and thereby trade<lb/>impeded, and one great source stopped up from<lb/>whence relief is administered to the several calamities<lb/>to which human affairs are subject: for<lb/>insurance is but a species <add>mode</add> of wagering.<lb/></p><p>The proper medium then seems to be this:<lb/><del>forbid the practise</del> In all cases in which it<lb/><del>In all cases except that of insurance</del> <add>is capable of being made a source an instrument of mischief</add><lb/>without answering in any useful purpose, forbid<lb/>it absolutely: in cases where as in insurance<lb/>it is [capable of being made use of as <add>wanted for the purpose</add>]<lb/>an instrument of relief allow of it in the main,<lb/>leaving it to the judge, to make the proper<lb/>exceptions [wherever he finds] <add>if in any case he sould find</add> it made use of as<lb/>a cloak to subornation.<lb/></p><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
Non-Seducing
Wagers
and a bond taken from him under such a penalty
on the other.
[It is evident then that] if wagers were
held valid allow'd of without restriction, bribery of all
kinds would receive the sanction of law, (a) and
liberty would be given ment to engage accomplices
for all sorts of crimes. [On the other hand]
if wagers were disallowed of without restriction
insurances would be prevented, and thereby trade
impeded, and one great source stopped up from
whence relief is administered to the several calamities
to which human affairs are subject: for
insurance is but a species mode of wagering.
The proper medium then seems to be this:
forbid the practise In all cases in which it
In all cases except that of insurance is capable of being made a source an instrument of mischief
without answering in any useful purpose, forbid
it absolutely: in cases where as in insurance
it is [capable of being made use of as wanted for the purpose]
an instrument of relief allow of it in the main,
leaving it to the judge, to make the proper
exceptions [wherever he finds] if in any case he sould find it made use of as
a cloak to subornation.
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