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Reasons Offences against Condition — Adultery

woman knows nothing of the other sex but from [one
man] her husband, his defects will be much more
supportable and the enjoyment she derives from his
caresses much more valuable to her: [In her unexperienced
mind] the enjoyment instead of being
referred to the sex will be referred to the individual.
Accordingly it has been observed that caeteris
paribus a woman feels is apt to feel an a peculiar tenderness
for the man from whom she has first
learned to experience those enjoyments: and that when the warmth of passion for all is equally abated with respect to all the
memory of a first lover is apt to be dearer to her
than that of any subsequent one.

of her service. 2. The estrangement which such an event is apt to
produce in her affections, is apt to render her a
loser not only in respect of the peculiar services which are
the more particular object of the contract, but in
respect also of all her other services of whatever
kind. The woman wife being supposed to be in that
state of subordination in which Nature & the in placed
Laws of almost all countries place her with respect
to her husband, an act of infidelity on her
part is mischievous not only as an act of infidelity,
but as an act of disobedience. It either
produces or cherishes in her desperation & a habit of disobedience.
By lessening his power of pleasing, it
lessens his power of commanding: and thereby achieve
his authority in a point as partial as that
which is constituted by compulsive law. In the
company or even in the idea of her gallant she
finds a resource against the apprehension [moving influence of his grief

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Identifier: | JB/071/098/004"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	098	Info in main headings field	offences against condition - adultery
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23501
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