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[The knowledge of the Law respects 4
points]
There are 4 distinguishable degrees of knowledge
which a man may have respecting
a Law.
1st Whether there be any Law at all
concerning the matter in question ?n Ecquid
Lex Habut?
2. What it is that the Law has ordained
concerning the matter in question ?
Quid Lex Statuit?
3. Under What is the penalty punishment which it has
appointed for the breach of what it has so
ordained ? Qua Sub Poena ?
4. What is the course of which it has appointed
for the Qu bringing to down such punishment
of down upon those who may have incurred it?
Ques madas prosequindi?
In all mischievous acts, where [the object &
the mischief are certain and conspicuous++ ,]
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[as might the Principal Offences of the 2 first classes]
the knowledge of the two first points
is as it were natural to man. that general &
vague knowledge of the ends of , and of
the Laws which regulate it made to uphold it which the
least instructed cannot fail of
from those with whom he converses is sufficient to informs
him , that if he does that which must as
he sees hurt another man , the Laws
will do that which shall hurt him .
With regard therefore to acts of this description
he is sufficiently disposed to believe,
that there is a Law concerning them , viz.
2dly That there is a Law which prohibits
them : but what are the penalties respectively
appointed for the breach of them is a point
in concerning which it is in the instance of a few only ,
such as Murder perhaps , that he is in the way
of himself to form any precise opinion.++
Still less can he be in general presumed
to be acquainted with these the expedients which
the Law has set on foot for the raising up of those,
who shall accuse him who has committed any
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of the acts thus obnoxious , for verifying the truth
of such accusation , f for the dischargeing from
the punishment or the infliction of it according
to the result of the enquiry.+
The same may be said of such all Accessory
Offences , those which are accessory ex inspinate excepted.
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Qu. of those of the 3d Class.
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Of the Laws which prescribe to men of particular professions how they shall conduct
themselves in the exercise of those particulars professions
of which kind are most of those burthen which [tax] prohibit
or restrain commercial dealings in the
respective — in many of these instances , I
say , there is nothing which tends naturally
to lead to the knowledge any even the lst and lowest degree of knowledge concerning them
There are 3 things which lead to some or
all of these degrees of knowledge : 1st The Sence +
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of some necessity for or utility in a Law to be
made upon the subject .
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