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HOMICIDE per infortunium — reparation 2 a particular species.
a clear one, for which no sacrifice is made: the manoeuvre consists in nothing
but the transference of a portion of happiness from one hand subject to another.
It is true that [is not to be expected] this expedient should be cannot be rigorously and
efficacious to put a stop to the evil: but neither can it be denied but
it must naturally do so in a considerable degree: it must do so as much as
the nature of things will admitt: and more than any other that could be
substituted in the it's room. But why cannot there be a regulation made obliging every Drover to cut off even with the Head the Horns of Oxen, before they bring them to Town under the penalty of 40' for example for each Ox to be recover'd before a Justice of peace on account of the notoriety Duplicity of the Fact which admitts not of any contrariety of Evidence — Qu. whether the Horn will lose of it's value by this means. The Beast will be the worn, when all are alike defenceless: & this country has no wild Beasts. Limits with the 3 mile stone in any public road, or in any paved Street in London. of its.
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