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C 9 Of Theft or Stealing Punishment If any Theft
shall be as follows:

1. Characteristic . This at all events.
1. He shall be and to be

2. Penitential imprisonment in the black Dungeon: up to This
or les public of Punishments
at option: up to four weeks at discretion.
suffer penitential imprisonment

Punishment.

3. He shall be confined toConfinement Hard labour
for [one] months certain: and moreover
for the space of a day for every sixpence of the
value of the thing
stolen. This at all events. See . Of pecuniary punishments.

4. Where the number of days which the offender
would have thus to suffer amounts to more than
there are in a year the Judge may convert as much as he
thinks proper of the confinement exceeding that
term into whipping; at the rate of not fewer than
[one] stripe nor more than [five] for every day's confinement.
The stripes to be inflicted at such times
and such a number at a time as he shall appoint.

5. The
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Sixpence The sum will of course require to be different
according to the different values of money in different
countries. The rule might be that it should amount to half
a day's wages according to the ordinary price of labour.
On this plan a man of the lowest class (which is the class
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Identifier: | JB/071/045/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	045	Info in main headings field	of theft or stealing
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23448
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