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48 C
Of Falshoods in general
Artifice of Legislators &c degree of coercive power force to their ordinances relative
to these heads than it might otherwise have been
practicable or at least prudent to apply. The offences
against which this contrivance is made most use of are
those which concern the external trade and the public
revenue. Of most of the falshoods which are committed
relative to those heads, the legislator himself may be
said (though without any necessary imputation either on his probity or his
wisdom) be said to be concerned in the production. When an
act is required to be done or to be abstain'd from as in subservience to the
view objects which the legislator has in view under those titles
the way he frequently proceeds in is this. He puts
it to the party in question to declare whether he has
done or has not done as the case or to get somebody
for him to declare whether he has or has not done as the act
in question as the case is, or whether such or such a fact
exists or no. When the person by whom the declaration
is to be made is the person pr interested or some
one in his behalf, it is generally required to be sanctioned
by an oath. Consequently if it be false the falshood receives takes the name of Perjury. When it is a person in whom
the law, from by reason of the publicity of his station
he reposes a special confidence, such as an officer
of the revenue, a written attestation is commonly accepted
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penal code |
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of falshoods in general |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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