JB/071/053/001

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C Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent Obtainment

Theft domestic Why the circumstance of the offender's being a
by a servant in the family of his master is punished in an extraordinary way servant of to the owner, is not made a ground of
degree. aggravation
destination.

The reason was I suppose that servants are more exposed to
temptation and have more frequent opportunities than strangers.

This is true but then on the other hand they are more exposed
to suspicion, and their persons so long as they continue in the service
are sure to be forthcoming. To a mere stranger the great
difficulty is to get access to anything which he would be glad to
steal: a servant is in many cases in no degree under any
difficulty of that sort: he is in no cases under equal difficulty
with the stranger. The difficulty the servant is in
regards not the having access to a thing so much as the
secreting it without being detected. But this difficulty is
perhaps as great to the servant as that of getting access is to
the stranger. When a thing is first missed, the servants
who had easiest access to it are the first on whom the suspicion
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Identifier: | JB/071/053/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	053	Info in main headings field	theft embezzlement and fraudulent obtainment
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f37 / f42 / f43 / f40
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23456
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