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1826. March 16
Penal CodeCh. 1. Offences affecting body Person
§. 1. Corporal vexation

§ 1

Art 1. Corporal vexation is where, by the act of one person
or persons pain or uneasiness or disease of body is caused produced to another:
it is styled simple to distinguish this case
from those in which the pain or uneasiness or disease is followed
by or accompanied by ulterior evil consequences as to which see Disablement, mutilation, Disfigurement etc. The pain or uneasiness
or disease is susceptible of an infinite number of degrees,
commencing at 0. and terminating in
death: thus, the uneasiness producible by the
fall of a single drop of water on the uncovered
head will amount to no more than a trifle
above nothing; but by continuance for a certain
length of time, it is said to have been screwed
up to the pitch of one of the most intolerable of
tortures. Hence it is that when not the work of
design an offence act, which without impurity impropriety might
be ranked under this denomination, might
naturally be regarded as too slight to be taken
for the ground of a judicial complaint, for let
the judicial remedy be ever so easily accessible the vexation of the remedy, not to speak
of the expense, can scarce fail to be much greater than the vexation produced
by the offence.

Identifier: | JB/065/054/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 65.
Date_1	1826-03-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	065	Main Headings	Penal Code
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field	Penal Code
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D1 / E1
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1824
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	20707
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