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Suggestions to the LegislatorOf Offences against Reputation in general
If a man attack with Defamation or verbal abuse a whole sect or other clafs or community of men he may be punish-ed for the general damage at the suit of the prosecution gene-ral, and for any special damage as also for the general at the suit of any particular person of that sect, clafs or com-munity or not by whom any such damage has been sus-tained. As if a man report knowing it to be false that the Jews of such a place have taken a Christian Child and circumcised it, whereby a mob rises and commits outrag-es on the person of a Jew, or damages the goods of another person supposing them to belong to the Jew.
Instructions to the Legislator.
In settling the Law relative to this and the preceding head these are two great dangers to be avoided; on the one hand the leaving the reputation of an innocent man in any respect at the mercy of his enemy; on the other hand the destroying or weakening the power of the moral sanction: that salutary power which tends to restrain men from actions per-nicious to the community, by the dread of its displeasure.

Identifier: | JB/072/031/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	of offences against reputation in general / of unlawful /reproach / vituperation /
Image	001	Titles	instructions to the legislator
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23648
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