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Offences against Condition — Adultery Reasons

-ens to the prejudice of his own must at his own expence, and to the prejudice of such
children, if any, as he believes to be his own.

9. Discord among the children 9. Another source of mischief is the discord
which such a state of things is apt to give birth
to among the children themselves. The children who
are supposed to be the children offspring of the marriage will
be regarding the children who are supposed to not
to be the offspring of the marriage, intrigue as intruders
and rivals who are defrauding them perhaps of a share
of the that affection and at any rate of a share of that
pecuniary support provision which ought to be all their
own. These rivals will not be regarded by them
on the footing of mere strangers: on the one side
it is true they are mere strangers: but they are the offspring of an enemy: on the other
side they are connected through the medium of
a person whom they are will be apt to regard whom by the very act of giving them be existence has involved in shame.
as objects not so much with of affection as of both shame.

10. Danger of a quarrel. 10. Another mischief is the chance of the mischief quarrel that
will be apt to arise between the husband
and the person who has done him this injury, and
the (various though uncertain mischiefs that may mischie bad consequences that may ensue from it
to both parties. ensue from it.) These consequences it is true are
altogether out of the reach of calculation, as they
depend upon the particular incidents of each intrigue, & upon radical temperament moral sentiments
education and a number of other insupportable indeterminable circumstances
relative to both parties. peculiar to each party. There is at any
rate a chance of their being that bloodshed and
even murder death may be of the number. To p. 11

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	offences against condition - adultery
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23503
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