JB/087/165/001

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Indirect

Corpus delicti
Instructions

§ Furnishing the people with cautionary instructions rules
[putting them on their guard against the several species
of delinquency.

Wrongful Poisoning (a) (a) Wrongful homicide —
Aggravation . . . Poisoning.

1. Poisons

[Circulating] instructions giving an account of the various
species of substances that are capable of being employd producing the
effect of in the way of poison, with the means of detecting
them and the method of cure. Were instructions
to this purpose circulated promiscuously among
the people, more mischief perhaps might be done
than good by the intelligence. The means of detection
are not always in every instance so clear as explicit as
to put render the matter clear to unintelligent and unexperienced
eyes: nor are either the cure of the
mischief or the discovery of the offender certain
consequences of the discovery of the fact. This therefore
does not seem to be one of those cases in
which the mischief danger that may result from the
knowledge of the means of doing evil mischief deposited in
the breasts of a the few is dissipated by making exposing
betraying uncovering the secret
and exposing it
that knowledge to the open air. The means of
hurting would be surer perhaps of finding application
than

Identifier: | JB/087/165/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	165	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27690
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