JB/071/088/001

Click Here To Edit

C 1

Of Personation

Personation defined Personation is where a man one person individual (A) is concerned (B) himself to
does any thing in the intention (C) of causing (D) you to believe (E) him to
be another (F) not believing himself to be the individual
he would cause you to believe him to be.
he himself to be.

Exposition

To p. 3
From p. 3
[(F) Another] No matter whether the individual personated exists or no It matters not whether there be is or be is
not or has been or has never been such a person
as the individual whom he pretends himself to
be. Thus for example: John Brown There
is such a person for example suppose as John Newman,
Baron of Newbury: who has not any son, nor ever had
any. James Brown, labourer son of James Brown labourer and Mary his wife,who is dead having never had any other than that one husband comes and says, that
he is James Newman son of John Baron of
Newbury. This is personation on the part of James
Brown. It may be consider'd as involving two falshoods:
1st that there is such a person as James
B Newman son of John Newman Baron of
Newbury: which is a simple ordinary falshood: and 2. that
he James Brown is that John Newman, which
is the particular kind of falshood, which has received
the name of personation.

By this assertion he avers himself to be
another person than the really has: is since it implies
that he is not the person who was born of the

---page break---

Identifier: | JB/071/088/001"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	088	Info in main headings field	of personation
Image	001	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	23491
Box Contents