JB/071/056/003

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Of Falshoods in general

instrument were at the time in question at which they purport to have been under as much signs of his ideas as of he
himself had made them: for instance that the individual A. B.
who is now on the 1st of Jan: 1780 is making the counterfeit
writing as was on the 1st Jan. 1770 the
individual Y. Z. and that being so he did on the
said 1st Jan. 1770 make those characters which
in truth he is now making on the 1st of
Jan. 1780. The averment respecting the act thus asserted to have
been done, this averment, I say when coupled with the averment
respecting the personality, is that which narrows if
to the a short and particular period short period of time: viz the
the period of time falsely affected to have been occupied
by in the making of the characters which are falsely
asserted to have been making at that time.

There is a one circumstance that may make
the propriety of the account given of this analogy
between forgery and personation appear suspicious.
This is that in the case of personation one is
apt to suppose there must be some little resemblence
between the person counterfeiting and the person he
counterfeits in order to give the offence a possibility
of success. As Whereas it is evident that forgery may
be committed and commonly is committed without
any the least constancy between those two persons. In forgery personation therefore

Identifier: | JB/071/056/003"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	056	Info in main headings field	of falshoods in general
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23459
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