JB/071/010/003

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11
C
Of Excuses Extenuations

circumstances relied on as grounds of justification, if looked
upon as being past or present; or the probability of their
existence if looked upon as future.

Suppose for instance that, with a good intention,
in order to save the life of a person bitten in the finger
(as you suppose) by a mad dog, which you suppose is mad, you cut off the finger
against his will. here 1. If the dog was not mad at
the time he it bit the person's finger, this was a mistake respecting
the actual past and present matter of fact. 2. If
immediate amputation does not surely cure, or if a cure
might for a certainty be effected at a cheaper rate, either
of these are mistakes concerning the probable matter of
fact. 3. If notwithstanding that the dog was mad at
the time and that the amputation cured, and that a cure
could not be effected at a cheaper rate, the law admitted
not the concurrence of these circumstaces as a
justification for the cutting off a man's finger, this would
be a mistake with regard to the matter of right, or in
other words of the matter of Law
[(B) Law] See Excuse Extenuation II
[(C) Unwritten Law] See Excuse Extenuation II

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Identifier: | JB/071/010/003"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	010	Info in main headings field	of extenuations
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23413
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