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Of Falshoods in general
therefore A.B.may affect himself to be Y.Z. without
any absolute certainty of being detected improbability of succeeding. But in forgery
it may be said this cannot be. The Forger A.B.
has not the most distant resemblance to Y.Z. How
then can he with any possibility of success represent
himself as being the same person with Y.Z. More
than that, the act of forgery is day on which the characters are actually is the 1st of Jany 1780.
In avers the day on which they are making
whereas the day on which he avers it them to have been making is the
1st day of Jany1770. How thencan he with any possibility of not being detected
assert that he is the same person with another
man whom he has not the least resemblence to, and
whose for person may be as well known to them
to whom he is making the declaration as any mans
person can be: and how can he with any possibility
of not being detected assert that the 1st day of
Jany 1770 is the same day with the 1st day of Jany
1780
The case is that at the time the forger A.B. is
averring himself to be the person Y.Z. neither he
not Y.Z. are seen. It is not a No person at all
is seen doing the act, it is not seen who the act
belonged to: the act itself is not seen. The person
by whom was doing really the act was is really doing, can not at the not be compared
juncture of time at which he is doing it be made to undergo that comparison
with the person by whom that which it is falsely asserted
to have been done, by which it would appear that they
are two different persons. All that is seen is the characters
which
Identifier: | JB/071/056/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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071 |
penal code |
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056 |
of falshoods in general |
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004 |
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text sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f1 / f2 / f3 / f4 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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