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8 C

Of Semi-public Offences in General

Calamities peculiar to animated bodies are 1. Pestilence. 2. Famine. Drought and other kinds of Scarcity. The incidents by which calamity is liable to be produced
may be idstinguished, in the first place into those which affect animated
bodies only, and htose by which any bodies at large are
liable to be affected. Those which animated bodies as such are liable
to are either 1. Disease, or 2. Death, the effect of many, and
the limit of all diseases. The causes from which as well diseases as
death are liable to result are either 1. Negative, consisting in the wants
of such things as are necessary for the support of life and health;
or 2. Positive, consisting in such applications as are positively of a
destructive nature. Among the things necessary for the support
of life the principal things, and the only ones besides respiratle air, which that are constantly
and universally necessary, are such as come under the name of
Food. Food is either solid or liquid. A want of things of other
sorts is termed, in general, Scarcity: a want of food of the solid Class
is termed Famine: a want of liquid food is termed Drought.

Calamities common to bodies animated and inanimate are derivable from the Agency, 1. Of sensitive beings uninfluencible by punishment: which are 1. Infants. 2. Persons insane. 3. Noxious Animals. Destructive applications result from the agency either of animated
agents or inanimate. Animated Agents may for this purpose be
distinguished into 1. Those which are liable to be influenced byh punishment,
and those which are not. The former class is composed of such
human creatures whose intellectual faculties are arrived to a certain
degree of maturity and not impaired by any accidental defect, that
is the greatest part of mankind: To the latter class belong 1. The
remaining part of human creatures. 2. Other Animals. The above remainder

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Identifier: | JB/071/129/004"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	129	Info in main headings field	of semi-public offences in general
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23532
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