JB/072/109/003

Click Here To Edit C Bribery From p. 1. no 1 Of Bribery it may be said in general that it involves necessarily one or other of two offences, mis-management or extortion. When committed by persons in offices that concern the ad-ministration of justice the mismanagement bears the particular character of iniquity. if the Judge decides more favourably for the briber than he would otherwise it is iniquity if not it is ex-tortion. The briber would not have given his bribe, if he had thought he could have got the same favour empty-handed. NOTE It is said to have been a maxim of that illustrious compound of meanness and sublimity the Ld. Chancellor Bacon, never to make injustice triumph, but to take care however to make Justice pay. The offence as thus described was rather intention than iniquity. From p. 7. no 2. In other respects It was only doing the same mischief for his own benefit which Legislators do perhaps in all nations and upon a mych larger scale, for the benefit so they imagine of the state. This maxim was not divulged; if it had been it would have frustrated it's own purpose. The mischief therefore which was really produced, was that of iniquity: the intimation of the disign carried with it the terror of the act. This Page Has Not Been Transcribed Yet

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 1-2, 1-3
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	bribery
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23726
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