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6. C

Of Family Imposture.

opposite channels, is capable of producing such a variety of distress
as it would take a Volume to delineate.

2. Because it would not be worth while to make distinctions. 2. Because if there are some cases in which a less punishment
might suffice, the offence will always be so rare, that the
provisions necessary for the purpose of excepting them would
not pay the price of the room they would occupy in the Code.

Quest. II. Why the bringing up of Adulterous Issue as
Lawful is not punished as Family Imposture?

Reasons.

1. Because punishment in the former case would produce more mischief than it would prevent. 1. Because punishment if slight would be inefficacious:
and whether slight or heavy would be unprofitable. It would
disturb the peace of Families [in more instances than more often than those in
which] it would preserve it. It would exasperate the sufferings
of the injured husband by forcing him to publish his Wife's
dishonour and his own.

2. Because the mischief is not so great as in the latter. 2. Because the mischief is not so great in this case as in the
other. From the nature of things the general probability will always
be that the offspring of the wife are the offspring of the husband

Identifier: | JB/071/112/002"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	002	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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