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Of Semi-public Offences in General

1 In as far as they are upon a different footing, they are of a local nature. To articles of such importance to the public, whether in the way
of ornament or use it may be proper to give an extraordinary degree
of protection. This protection will of course be adapted to the nature of
each article or at least each class of articles, and to the particular kind
of damage to which it stands exposed. But these are evidently
local topics: to discuss them fully is therefore incompatible with the would therefore be incongruous
present design. to the present purpose.

From p. 1 No 1 2 Offences tending to expose the Neighbourhood to calamities. Under the head of Offences through calamity, that is offences tending to expose the Neighbourhood
to calamities, must be included a large tribe of Offences for which no distinctive
names have as yet been, nor, considering the intractibility of
language, are likely to be, provided. The description of them when
given at full length may stand as follows: Offences which consist
in the violation of those laws which are made in the view of securing
the inhabitants of a Neighbourhood against the several physical
calamities to which they are, or might otherwise have been exposed.
Of these calamities it is the distinctive character to be unintentional
on the part of the Offender from whose conduct they are apprehended;
if not absolutely and compleatly so, at least with regard to those higher
degrees of malignity destructiveness to which it is possible though not common for
them to use: For if they were compleatly intentional it would no
longer be a case of physical calamity, but of criminality. It is a
faint chance perhaps that the conduct of any one offender would
produce of giving birth to the calamity; so faint that an ordinary Individual

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Identifier: | JB/071/128/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
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	004	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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