JB/071/111/004

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Of Family Imposture

as the common case of Adultery: in which not only the person
of the woman is defiled but her affections are alienated.

The case of the faux Martin Guerre, (a) uncommon as it
is, is provided for in the above definition. Such an imposture
can hardly be carried on with the least probability of success
without the Wife's being an Accomplice.

The most common case of Family Imposture is that of
a suppositio partus; where a married woman produces and brings
up as her own a child which is not her own. This kind of
fraud is most commonly practised in families of condition: and
the most common motive to it is a disagreement between the woman and the
next heir. The case may be either that there was no pregnancy:
or that there was a pregnancy and delivery; but the child dying
or growing sickly, another was procured in the room of it. Instances

Note

(a) An impostor who passed himself off for a Man of that name, and
for a length of time was recognised as such by the man's Wife and several
of his friends & relations. They perhaps were deceived throughout,
but as to the wife there is seems to be no accounting for her behaviour but by supposing
that

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	111	Info in main headings field	of family imposture
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23514
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