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[Division] Offences against Genealogy

Offences against Genealogy — falshood a necessary ingredient It will appear evident that falshood
It will be observed that falshood is here mentioned
as the only instrument by which offences
against Genealogy can be committed. + + Not so: destruction of evidences is another means. That this
is the case will presently appear. The facts by
which a given relationship the genealogy is constituted are all past
facts: they exist therefore, such as they are, nor are
it they susceptible of any alteration is it in the
power of man to do any thing to alter them.
But men's belief concerning them is a fact that
may take place or not at an any time. This therefore
and this alone is capable of being influenced by human
agency. If then Whatever influences then may happen
to be applied to it, Let any relationship be proposed as capable either that influence has the tendency
of subsisting between two parties. Either this relationship of that influence is to render the belief conformable.
does to the truth or uncomformable: on the former case no supposition
there is no offence in the case: on the latter there is an
offence, which is a species of falshood.

Take any two given parties, for example,
and let any mode of relationship be proposed as capable of subsisting
between them be proposed. Either then this
relationship does subsist between them or it does
not. If it does, the falshood in this behalf must
consist in giving people to understand that it does the negative
not If not, [in giving them to understand] the affirmative.

Along with this belief concerning a relationship go the advantages
and disadvantages that deposed upon it Upon this belief

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field	offences against genealogy
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23518
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