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Of Falshoods in general
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Each kind of falshood is applicable to every offence It has already been intimated, that falshood, when
consider'd in the light of an offence of Forgery it will be believed is an offence
of the most extensive and the most heterogeneous nature. It seems and in any System of
Laws to have been dealt with any uniform and comprehensive
Plan. It cowers, however if one may so say, a larger
quantity of space in the circle of delinquency than what
is occupied by all other possible offences put together. By
Forgery every Falshood any pernicious design whatever may either be accomplished
or forwarded that can be accomplished by any other kind
of offence; and a great many which cannot be accomplished
by any other. Felony offence whatever be that which a man may act by By Forgery that is no offence Accordingly there is no offence whatsoever
to which it may be not be contributory: if in no other way, at least,
Forgery be contributory as it were by suggesting either the motives
or the means. Hence it is that Forgery might be distinguished Falshood in general, and
in it into each of the above species above distinguished in particular, might may be divided again into as many distinguished again into as many different species
as there are species of offences. For different offences There are some offences
indeed to which it is more or less likely for it to be subservient than
At the same time to others. There are even some With regard to some offences to which indeed it may appear rather difficult to
at first sight to conceive how it should be subservient: and to which it is only perhaps by
Identifier: | JB/071/059/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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