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Pt IV 33
C
Of Frauds relative to the Coin. Reasons
Question I. ) Why a man is not made criminally responsible
for putting off bad Coin which he has innocently received ?
Reasons.
1. Punishment in this case would be groundless. There is,
in in fact no clear portion of mischief produced , no clear harm done by such a transaction : there is no all that it
other <add>mischief produced</add> harm done than what would must be without does is to shift if a mischief already produced from one
man to another . If having taken bad Money for good , you cannot put it off,
the loss is yours; if you put if off upon me, I suffer a loss it is
true; but no more than what You would have suffered , if you
had not shifted it off upon me. 2. The
Identifier: | JB/071/168/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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not numbered |
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071 |
penal code |
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168 |
of frauds relative to the coin |
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001 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f33 / f34 / f35 / f36 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]] |
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caroline fox |
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23571 |
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