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1826. May 10
Penal CodeCh. 1. Offences affecting person
§. Corporal vexation

On this occasion habit comes to be considered.
In the case of most offences, the offence is comprised
within the compass of a single act. In this case,
there is frequently room for habit, and that in
such sort, that without the habit, a quantity of
evil would scarcely be sufficient to furnish the
matter for an offence. The case of the a habit can
however seldom have place not very naturally or frequently
have place unless it be accompanied with
wrongful imprisonment, or be acc the result of
one of those reactions which give to the offence
the character of an offence affecting condition
in life. In a word, the case of a father or guardian
or master exercising acts of cruelty on a minor,
or a husband over his wife.

The case of Mrs Browning exhibits an instance
of this kind. The habitual cruelties
she was convicted of having exercised on a number
of poor children under her care was among the
topicks which fixed the attention of the public
eye.

Scantiness of diet, want of the usual accommodation
for the purpose of repose, nothing
but the bare floor to lie on, enclosure in a box which
admitted not of the patient's raising his head –
by an assemblage of hardships of this kind, health
in the first place and finally life might be destroyed;
while by one of them or even by all in conjunction if not contained
beyond a short portion of the day, the hardship would be so considerable
as hardly to furnish an adequate subject matter for the hand of justice.

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Date_1	1826-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-11
Box	065	Main Headings	Penal Code
Folio number	058	Info in main headings field	Penal Code
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1824
Marginals	George Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	20711
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