JB/141/014/001

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Rule 9. When the act is conclusively indicative of a habit such an increase must be given to the punishment as may enable it to outweigh the profit not only of the individual offence, but of such other like offences as are likely to have been committed with impunity by the same offender.

Severe as this conjectural calculation may appear it is absolutely necessary in some cases, of this kind are crimes fraudulent crimes using false weights andor measures and if using base coin. If the coiner were only punished according to the nature of the single crime that he had committ of which he is convicted, his fraudulent practice would upon the whole be a lucrative one. Punishment would therefore be inefficacious if it did not bear a proportion to the total gain which may be supposed to have been derived not from one particular act, but from a of actions of the same kind.

There may be a few other circumstances or considerations which may influence in some small degree the demand for punishment, but as the propriety of these is either not to demonstrable, or not so constant, or the application of them not so determinate as that of the forging, it may be doubted whether they are worth putting on a level with the others.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	rule 9
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f12 / f10
Penner	richard smith	Watermarks	dusautoy & rump 1809
Marginals		Paper Producer	edward collins
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	48231
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