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1823. Novr. 16
Constitution Code or Penal Code or Procedure

§. 6. Punishment appropriate in case of falshood

Art. 1. Amont the Register's Books, and in particular the delinquency-Register Books are kept three Books
appropriated to the recordation and thence to the punishment and
repression of false testimony: those names are 1. The Mendacity Book or 1. The Lying Witness's Book,
2. The Insincerity Book 2. The false and Insincere Witness's Book; 3. The Rashes assertion Book false and Rash
Witness's Book.

Art. 2. In this In these books respectively when
by the exercise of his operative function the Judge has declared that the discours discourse conduct
of a witness has been such as to bring him under one or other
of these several denominations, he adds to it an correspondent
imperative decree ordering the insertion entry to be
made of the name of the individual in the that one of the three Books by
in which has for the its title that same denomination for its
title.

Art. 3. Attached Subjoined to the name of the party is are the
tenor of the operative decree together with a reference to the
entire record of which it forms to which it belongs – part, and an abridged
designation of the false assertion to which on the imputation
designated expressed by the title of the Book was thus fixt.

Art. 4. As to For what regards compensation and
punishment for the particular mischief evil produced by the false
assertion or which might have been produced had it obtained
credence, this misc evil depend upon the several
sorts of offences misdeeds to which the falshood in each particular case
was in its tendency subservient. As to these see the Penal
Code.

Art. 5. In the Penal So likewise for the provision succedaneum subsidiary
punishment to be employed in addition to this, in the case in which by the
from his situation and personal
character conduct he may
be presumed not to be
sufficiently sensible to it:

Identifier: | JB/055/127/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 55.
Date_1	1823-11-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-5
Box	055	Main Headings	Constitutional Code; Penal Code; Procedure Code
Folio number	127	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code or Penal Code or Procedure
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E1
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1822
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1822
Notes public		ID Number	17848
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