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Of Family Imposture

as the common case of Adultery: in which not only the person
of the woman is defiled but her affections are alienated.

The case of the faux Martin Guerre, (a) uncommon as it
is, is provided for in the above definition. Such an imposture
can hardly be carried on with the least probability of success
without the Wife's being an Accomplice.

The most common case of Family Imposture is that of
a suppositio partus; where a married woman produces and brings
up as her own a child which is not her own. This kind of
fraud is most commonly practised in families of condition: and
the most common motive to it is a disagreement between the woman and the
next heir. The case may be either that there was no pregnancy:
or that there was a pregnancy and delivery; but the child dying
or growing sickly, another was procured in the room of it. Instances

Note

(a) An impostor who passed himself off for a Man of that name, and
for a length of time was recognised as such by the man's Wife and several
of his friends & relations. They perhaps were deceived throughout,
but as to the wife there is seems to be no accounting for her behaviour but by supposing
that



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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

111

Info in main headings field

of family imposture

Image

004

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline fox

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23514

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