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Of Unlawful Defamation.

6. With regard to disreputable Acts or Practices it matters
not whether they be deservedly so or not.

Reasons.

The degree in which a man suffers by being thought
to have done an Act reputed looked upon as immoral is in proportion not to
its real but to its imputed Immorality. A man will Sometimes
suffer very severely in the goodwill and estimation of
the community for an act which is not at all immoral,
or for an act which is not so immoral as it is reputed to
be. On the other hand there may be some instances in which
perhaps a man will not suffer at all in the good will or
esteem of the community though he be known to have committed
an Act which is really immoral; or at least will
not suffer so much as he would do if it were reputed as
immoral as it is.

At present different practices and qualities are
reputed in a different degree immoral in different circumstances: communities: partly because the same practices and qualities
which are detrimental in one community are not so in another

Identifier: | JB/067/046/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 67.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	15-17, 17a
Box	067	Main Headings	liberty of the press
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	of unlawful defamation
Image	001	Titles	reasons / note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	21879
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