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Penal Code 1
Form
Ch. Order Method of treating each head of Offence.
Lw C.J.C.3.
Under each head of offence the following is the
method I shall pursue.
Definition.
1. I shall give a Definition of the offence: together
with such observations as may appear necessary
to justify or explain it. [the Definition.]
Mischief.
2. I shall state the mischief which it is the nature
of it the offence to produce.
Exemptive circumstances.
By exemptive circumstances
belonging to a
head of offences, I mean
circumstances the affect
of which is
3. I shall state the exemptions several sets of exemptive
circumstances that may accompany belong to it if any that offers
an the sort of thing that by the name
an act known by the name given to the offence in question.
to take the not of the case in which it is
meaning mischievous upon the whole. Such
mischievous; stands are therefore proper to justify
it, the
constitute so many exceptions to any the law which should
marks it out for punishment. They
accordingly in the Lawyers phrase to justify the
act, and on that account may be called circumstances
and may be said to constitute
as cases of justification.
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