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we might either of us without much
concern see the punishment inflicted
event though it were as above smuggled
in in the way of common law the offender
therefore having had no possibility
of being pre-apprized of it. Why?
Because the mischievousness of the Act
is by the supposition evident, and con
thence the reason which the delinquent
had for expecting to find punishment attached
to it. One case

One case will here naturally present
itself in which it may be thought
that the allowance of this ignorance
in the character of an excuse can not
but be demanded on the ground of utility
and justice. This is where the existence
of a prohibitory penal law
not being discoverable by reason as
above, the possibility of his having been
at the time of the transgression apprized
of the existence of the law being
excluded by physical obstacles: place
of the transgression suppose the East
Indies or a vessel on her voyage thither,
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Identifier: | JB/010/040/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1813
Marginals		Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1813
Notes public	draft of letter 2425, vol. 9	ID Number	3476
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