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NOMENCLATURE FELONY. How retainable.
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It may be urged against the abolition of the Term
Felony that the idea of infamy it impresses
in the minds of the people on the crime to
which it is implied is serviceable & salutory
They are alarmed & their abhorrence in a stronger
degree excited by that odious appellationsound, than
even it might be at the more particular ones
Thief Ravisher Robber &c of which as
their common genus it is predicable.
If this should be thought true, it may be still
retained, after being purged of all its dark &
unfathomable consequences; in short after being
made no longer designation of a certain punishment
as according to it's Technical Idea, but of a
certain class of crimes, as according to its popular.
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The Crimes which it may be thought fit
to all by the name of might be
1st Of the 1st Class 2d Class 3d Class
1. ManslaughtMurder 1 - raiding
2. Mayhem 2 Threatening Letters 2. Killing the King
with the Attempt
3. Disfigurement 3 Inundation 3 Killing of certain other
Magistrates & the
attempt.
4. Theft 4 Appearing in designate 4 Riots by more
armed than 12.
5 Embezzlement 5. Defiling Females
allied to the Succession
6 Malicious Mischief 6. Prodition
without Force
7 Coinage offences 7. Piracy
8. Forgery 8. Returning from
Banishment. &c
9. False pretence & tokens 9. Embezzlement
of Criminal
Records
10. Personation
11. Polygamy Qu.
12. Kidnapping
13. Robbery
14. Malicious Mischief
with Force
15. Burglary
16. Rape
17. Defilement of Infants
18. Forcible Marriage
19. Perjury in a Capital cause
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