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62
C
Of Falshoods in general
Using false keys not an offence by falshood.
From p.46 at bottom
NOTE
Making of false keys (as they are called) has been is has been
sometimes reckoned among the crimina falci or offences
by falshood. This is evidently a mistake, into which people have been led by the sound of the word false. Those who have ranked them in
this class have been deceived misled by the sound
of the word false. There is here no averment in
the case: consequently no false averment none which a thing which can
be false. There is nothing as not so much as any thing done in
the intention of influencing belief. It is only a particular
way of committing Theft: of effectivating or
endeavouring to effectivate a design of Theft. A quantity
of plate suppose is deposited in a house: some part of
it in a room on the ground floor; part of it
in a room on the first floor. gets The getting into the
room on the ground floor the Thief makes use of a false
key: for getting into that on the first floor he makes applies
use of a ladder Of toby is at
the window. It is plain there is no mere falshood employed
in one of these cases than in the other.
It is possible indeed that in employing the false key
he might have had it in view in to concealing from the
owner the knowledge of the fact. It in other words
to cause him not to believe that the plates had been
taken away: and that on this account it was that he preferred
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of falshoods in general |
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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