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ALL LAWS PENAL

To put at once as strong a case as I can think of it will take for an example that clause in the
Law called the State of Grands & Perjuries which requires 3 witnesses to the
execution of a Will of affection Land. [It will be asked what what respect it will be asked can this be consider'd
as an article of Criminal Law?] what Crime does this create or abolish remove? what has
this to do with criminality? It has this — the Heir at Law, who by till then had
been prohibited from taking possession of the Land in question whenever there was a any sort of
Will made disparity of it to some other under the penalty of Costs and disappointment. redispossession.
is now permitted to take & possession in that capacity, whenever the formalities
hereby required are not complied with, & the penalty is transferred upon under such circumstances
upon the Devisce. If the Law did not make some act , an offence it
did nothing: before it was the Heir at Law's taking possession that was an ; offense now
it is the device's that is the offence — & the Heir's at Laws is so no longer. Laws that may be called in the confined of the word Political, Constitutional restraining the power of irresponsible Senate members of the political body how are they penal? they do either nothing or they denounce in oblique but intelligible whispers the loss of power as the penal consequence of transgression

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	103	Info in main headings field	introd. criminal & civil all laws penal
Image	001	Titles	all laws penal
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	31107
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