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those words, whatsoever possible circumstances might
be adducible in exculpation of him in those possession
it were the plate found.
But in addition to this the one source of obstruction
and detection thus afforded afforded constituted by the existing plan, the proposed
plan affords eight other such indications impediments of the same sort:
all which however are comprizable under two
heads; viz: those which belong to regard the Portraits,
and those which belong to regard the types. The business
is so to order both these articles, as that
for the purpose of prohibition and punishment, and that without to insistence
they shall be susceptible of the precise verbal
description above required.
As to the portraits, a mere bare portrait, taken
by itself, could not, of itself, nor without particular accompaniments, be accommodated
to this purpose. A fancy portrait may by accident be like
'a real one is among real ones, a portrait
designed for one person may bear a near resemblance,
possibly even a still nearer resemblance,
to another.
Among Let Suppose the words of the law to be
as follows:– a figure engraved in the imitation of and designed
to pass and be taken for the portrait head or figure of J.S.
as the same state as stands represented on the face of
a Bank note. A verbal descri Conceived for example in
terms like these, the a verbal description would scarcely
of itself be adequate to the intended purpose. In To the eye
of a scrupulous Jury, even a close and skilful
imitation might app present itself as the possible
result of accident, and thereby afford room for doubt:
and the more less close the imitation, the greater the
room
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