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C 11.

Of Semi-public Offences in General.

or at the least the effects of them diminished by human ingenuity
and prudence. To take the measures necessary for this purpose
requires the political power as well as Scientific contrivance of
the Sovereign or those who act under his authority. It requires
a certain system of political regulations to be to be established in that view. Now this system made which will of
course be different, according to the different calamities which
they are calculated to obviate. Till these regulations are
made, it will in most cases be difficult to say what particular
acts have any particular tendency to promote
any given article in the list of those calamities. Such offences
will most of them be in that case in which the motive
for punishing exists not before the law is made. The law must
be made before the acts which it prohibits can be seen clearly
to be of pernicious tendency. As in these cases it will be impossible
to ascertain the description of the Offence until the regulations
be given which it tends to counteract, those regulations
must be given before the mischievousness of the Offence can be
estimated and the punishment of it determined. But these
regulations are altogether dependent upon local considerations.
It is evident therefore that no place can be allotted to them
here.

General Idea of such Laws. It may be of use however to take a cursory view of the general
tendency of such regulations if it were only to justify the place


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Identifier: | JB/071/130/003"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

130

Info in main headings field

of semi-public offences in general

Image

003

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

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

23533

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