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Of Semi-public Offences in General

We come now to the second class of offences: consisting
of such as are of a semi public nature: and in the first place
to offences through calamity.To P. 4. No 2

Semi-public Offences, or Offences against a class of persons may
be distinguished in the first place into offences against a local class of
persons, or, in other words, into offences against a Neighborhood, and
Offences against an ideal class of persons, or in other words offences against
a class of persons at large. By the former I mean all such
offences which a multitude of persons are exposed to suffer on account
of the proximity of the divisions of space which they happen respectively
to occupy for the time being: that proximity being a
circumstance which denominates them neighbours to each other
and the whole tract of ground they occupy, the Neighbourhood. By
the latter I mean all offences which any such multitude of persons
are exposed to suffer by, as happen to be connected and brought
into the same predicament by any other circumstance.

Offences against a Neighbourhood may be distinguished in the
first place into such as are first rate crimes and such as are only offences
of an inferior rank. Under the former division I comprehend
the two Offences for which language has found names to wit Incendiarism
and Inundation. These will be treated of in form, each
under a title by itself. They are in fact but so many particular
species of criminal destruction destruction: an Offence, of to which as well the property
of assignable individuals as that of a Neighbourhood may
become

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	128	Info in main headings field	of semi-public offences in general
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23531
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