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C 11

Of Simple Mercantile Defraudment

1 law proceeded. which When punished delinquents of delinquent of a man of
the higher ranks high high rank had incurred the
punishment of whipping, instead of his person
the sentence was executed on his cloaths. garments.
This was a sort of punishment in effigy.
It was in strictness a particular way of executing
this sort of punishment upon him in effigy. To p. 16. No 2

2 From p. 9 No 1 N. B. One may here see in a more particular manner the use of the
fixed part of the hard labour appointed under
the article title of Theft. This Simple Mercantile defraudment is one of those acts
which afford a pretty strong indication of an
habit: + + See Off. against Prop:y Diss. and which therefore it may be proper sometimes
to punish rather more than in proportion
to the mischief proved. See Ch Introd. Ch [Proportion
&c] Rule. Petty profits will be made
by petty cheats of this sort much oftener than
the cheats will be detected: and much oftener
still than they will be prosecuted. On This
latter circumstance makes a stronger ground
for punishment upon presumption than in
this case than in that of theft. For the offence
of theft being a more palpable one is more
apt to excite raise up that degree of resentment which

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Identifier: | JB/071/155/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 1-2
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	155	Info in main headings field	of simple mercantile defraudment
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23558
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