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C 39

Of Confinement

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From p. 36. Specificati Specification of the most common purposes. The most common purposes for which confinement
is unlawfully inflicted or likely to be inflicted seem to be as
follows

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1. To govern on pretence of insanity 1. To maintain an absolute controul over
the person and fortune of a wife, husband, parent, child or brother, sister,
or other near relation on pretence of insanity.
To guard against this kind of abuse requires certain
local regulations concerning insane persons,
& concerning public and private mad-houses.
This kind of oppression is seldom exercised upon
persons in perfect health of mind and whose behaviour
entertains affords no ground whatsoever for the
imputation on which the injury is founded. The
most common case is where there is some little defect
in the understanding of the person so oppressed,
though not such as is sufficient to warrant the
oppression coercion actually which is applied. To p. 43. last paragraph

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From p. 40 par. 3 To compel execution of a Deed. 4. To compel the party to sign execute some
deed either to his own to the prejudice of either or that of some third
person. This comes under the definition of
Robbery Forcible wrongful investment divestment &c To p. 41. at top

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From p. 40 at bottom 7. To gratify lust. 9 7 8 To compel the party injured to submit
to the lascivious embraces of the offender. such or such a person. This
is a species of Rape

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8 To compel matgrimony 9. To compel the party injured to submit to
enter into matrimony with the offender such or
such a person. This if the matrimony be consummated


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Identifier: | JB/071/125/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

12-13, 16, 20-22, 16, 19

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

125

Info in main headings field

of confinement

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f37 / f38 / f39 / f40

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23528

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