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C 39

Of Co-offenders

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Five sorts of persons whose claims are nearly equal There are five different sorts of persons whose claims
to this appellation seem to approach a so near to an equality
as not to admitt of any other than a mere arbitrary
decision. These are 1. the prime mover: or author + + See ff. 7. 2.
the characteristic offender: See ff. 49 3. the person principally chiefly naturally
& chiefly benefited: See ff. interested in point of profit: 4. the ringleader. See ff. 28 5.
the perpetrator. See ff. 4. The titles which they have respectively
to produce are: 1. the ringleader prime mover, f priority
of endeavour: 2. the characteristic offender, peculiarity
of situation: 3. the person chiefly naturally benefited, p
peculiarity of interest: 4. the ring-leader, superiority of exertion: 5. the perpetrator,
actual & immediate perpetration. In the discussion of all these discordant
claims an advocate might find matter for disputation
without end: but the business of a the legislator is not
to raise controversies, but to quiet them.

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The person naturally benefitted by the offence is he to whom belongs the natural profit of it It may of use to understand clearly who is
the person naturally benefitted by each crime offence.
Every offence that is intentionally committed must be
attended with a profit or supposed profit: else it
could not be committed: for there would be no motive
for committing it. But this profit may be either
natural or artificial. By the natural profit is
to be understood that which accrues of course upon
the arrival of the obnoxious event event. By the artificial

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Identifier: | JB/098/031/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	54-58, 61-63
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	of co-offenders
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f39 / f40 / f41 / f42
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31639
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