JB/073/079/001

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C
Simple Personal Injuries

If your intention was only to make him hurt
him arm in the fore-arm or the leg without depriving
him of the use of either, the act was inadequately
intentional: if your intention was to deprive
him, of his thigh or of the whole of his arm your the act was more than adequately intentional.

Where an act that proves eventually
detrimental to a person was altogether unintentional with
respect to the eventual damage, it may either have been
heedlessx or not heedless. It is termed heedless, where
it appears that the agent ought to have foreseen avoided producing
of the damage that eventually ensued,
inasmuch as a person of ordinary prudence could might
with an ordinary share of caution have foreseen
and avoided the probability of its resulting from the act.

Thus if it should appear for example Example.
that you had no particular intention of striking
the man but yet that he was however close to you
inasmuch that if you had but looked round
to observe whether any person was in the way
you must have seen him, it will appear that
your striking him was an act of heedlessness. But
this will not appear to have been the case, if at
the time of your beginning to move your arm he
was out of your reach, and was brought within it unexpectedly
and by accident: for instance by a shove from another

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Identifier: | JB/073/079/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	079	Info in main headings field	simple personal injuries
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / / / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23919
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