JB/071/112/001

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C Of Family Imposture

Instances have sometimes happened where, from
the influence of some caprice or other, children have been changed
at Nurse. The Nurse has thought hereself unable to provide
for her own child: or from motives of vanity has wished to see
it brought up in a condition superior to her own.

Quest. 1. Why Family Imposture is punished with
perpetual Punishment?
Reasons 1. Because in general even the primary Mischief as well as the Profit are indefinite.

1. Because as the profit as well as mischief of the Offence
may be indefinite, so ought the punishment in order to be
upon a par with it. See Tit. [Proportion] Rule 1. There is no
calculating the confusion and distress that may be brought
upon a family when an impostor has introduced himself into
it, and afterwards comes to be discovered. The dissipation
of the whole fortune of the person whom he supplants or
counterfeits is one only amongst a multitude of evils. The
Tearing alliances asunder and foreign family affections into
opposite

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Note that she liked the counterfeit husband better than the real. This happened in
France. The Story is in the Causes Celebres.

Identifier: | JB/071/112/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23515
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