JB/071/035/003

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7.
C
Extortion

The value of a new service occurring in an old office is to be
estimated from its similarity to the old services. As the fee
which is annext to that one of the old services which comes nearest
to the new one is to the service it belongs to, so let the fee for the
new service be to such new services.
To p.

The Fees for offices and all services incident to these offices
ought every where to be adjusted by the legislator. Where this
is not done the extortion is not more to be imputed to the incapacity
of the officer than to the negligence of the Legislator.

In as far as a Legislator authorizes an officer to take
more money for his service than it is worth, or makes more
such services necessary (to the validity of a transaction) than
the end requires he lays on a Tax.

An officer is to be deemed to have given the party
to understand that he will not do the service unless the
fee be given him if he do but demand it.
So if he do but accept it when offered

Where there is no service to be done for the fee, or where
the service is already performed and the party injured it
no-

Identifier: | JB/071/035/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	035	Info in main headings field	extortion
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23438
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