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8 C

Reasons Offences against Condition — Adultery

for the father. Any cause therefore which tends
to abate the latter of these affections, may will in some
degree tend to produce an abatement in the latter.

8. Burthen of providing for children imagined to be spurious 8. Where the circumstances of the intrigue are
such as to render it possible with regard to any
child born during the marriage, that it may
have been the fruit of the intrigue and not of the
marriage, these circumstances constitute an additional
and very considerable source of mischief.
It may happen that the husband is by that means
burthen'd with the expence and care of providing
for children that are not his own or which comes
comes to the same thing which he may think
are not his own. If he thinks them own has
no suspicion but that they are his own, and at
the same time the pleasure he takes in of bringing them up is
more than equivalent to the burthen, in such
case indeed there is no harm done. But the contrary
is more likely to be the case. Nor is it
unlikely but her infidelity in any one instance may
raise doubts in his mind with respect to children
born long before the infidelity commenced. Children
labouring under such a suspicion will not
be regarded on the same footing of indifference with
the any other children; they will not only not be dear to
him: they will be positively odious. The sight of
them will be continually awakening and enlivening
in his imagination the idea of the crime to which
they ow'd or are suspected to have ow'd their birth:
he is at the same time obliged to provide for these aliens





Identifier: | JB/071/099/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.

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Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

099

Info in main headings field

offences against condition - adultery

Image

004

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23502

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