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Panopticon Bill Escape
37. Instances
Art.37. Instances of wantonness or malice 
 amongst others are the following.
 1. If out of unbecoming curiosity or in the way of
 insult a man should thus aggrieve a woman of
 good fame.
 2. If a person of either sex were thus to be aggrieved,
 for the sake of betraying some secret blemish which
 the party is desirous to conceal.
 3. Or for the purpose of insult, by the illegal display
 of superiority in point of strength or courage.
4. Or for the purpose of exposing to shame a
 quondam Penitentiary Prisoner, who is neither a 
 fugitive nor a deserter, nor suspected of any post-
 liberation offence, for which he might in such manner
 be discovered & arrested.
38. Offences here made
 felonies to be treated
 as such in respect
 of procedure.
Art.38. And whereas the ranking of an 
 offence under the denomination of felony, is, in respect
 to the effectuation of divers essential objects of
 procedure attended with divers beneficial consequences,
 and in particular in respect of the investigation & 
 securing of evidence by preparatory examinations,
 and the security the production of the body of the
 unsuspected person in readiness to be dealt with according
 to law, which said consequences would not as
 the law at present stands attach upon offences not
 comprised under the said denomination, even
although
| Identifier: | JB/119/281/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119. | |||
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| 36-38 | |||
| 119 | panopticon | ||
| 281 | panopticon bill | ||
| 003 | |||
| copy/fair copy sheet | 4 | ||
| recto | d49 / d50 / d51 / d52 | ||
| 39792 | |||