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To have followed the dictates of simple understanding common sense and ordinary in the description of it
would have been at least highly dangerous if not fatal to the meaning efficacy

To "suffer death by hanging" would indeed to men of ordinary intellects seem to impart that . man was to be
to lose his life & lose it in this way hanged and to lose his life by it: but lawyers know that it means its' meaning is very different - too different & too complex, to
be delineated in under less than many orations
Such would proposals instances indeed were it to be as tabletical, thusexamined , would probably bring the put the profession into no small embarassment:if indeed
it would be more certain, that that would not be his fate, than would not be his fate, than what else would.

Such of my readers who have been at the pains of it, who are familiarized with this subtle doctrine<add>, <add>my knew well enough that this is the case.: & it
is to more than cause trouble and injustice would take up so much time in this place to make it outto explain it to those who have are not. All I can do for them at present is to
refer them to the books mentioned in the margin
I must hasten from a topic subject pregnant with occasions of expense for disputation of of of dispute as if I answered reserve
which if I were one to take I should never see know when to quit: & which had much better be prefered over umbrage
than not treated with that copiousness & precision which the importance of it deserves.

Suffering death on legal means no such thing as losing life: there go case to that bargain than every body
is aware: of how little sense one should it to cutby the number of notions in which it is mentioned,
than is always so much of



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This is one of those subjects on which it is better to say nothing than to say too little:
at on some future time occasion, it may be my fate to say what many will think too much
I cannot however avoid suggesting the it as anquestion, whether there be any reason to think that
the impulse to shout
which which was in us—not repeated, was by design.
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Identifier: | JB/095/108/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 95.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

095

Main Headings

Folio number

108

Info in main headings field

turnp. act observations on xiv

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [partial lion with vryheyt motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

30994

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