JB/071/162/003

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C 11

Of Frauds relative to the Coin.

NOTE

From p. 10 (a) These ideas seem not to have occurred to Mr. Voltaire, who
in treating of this offence joins with the common run of Jurists in putting continues to find it upon a rank with
Treason: for "it is betraying the state" (says he) "to rob all the individuals
"that compose it". The observation seems a little
hasty: for the fact is that by one single offence of this sort it is
but one single individual that is ever affected in the first instance primarily affected. Any individual
it is true may suffer; but the difference between all and
any is considerable: So long as any one individual suffers,
no other suffers but that one; so soon as a second suffers the
first is made amends. It is therefore an offence against assignable
individuals, and so far from being Treason, it is not
so much as in any shape at all an an offence against the State.

By the extension of the Act act into a Habit habit a great number
of individuals, it is true, are exposed to suffer: but let the
multitude of them be ever so great, they are constantly assignable;
they are such and such persons who happen to be the
holders of such and such a piece of the money.

Identifier: | JB/071/162/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	162	Info in main headings field	frauds relative to the coin
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23565
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