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14. C
Of Semi-public Offences in General.
It has been combated in various nations, with much ardour and
commonly with little skill, by severe penalties against the supposed
authors of such scarcity. The regulations made with reference
to this head coincide undistinguishably with those made
for the benefit of trade in general. Offences against the former
set of regulations coincide therefore undistinguishably with
the division of our 4th Class of Offences, Offences against Trade.
3. Mischief by Infants, Ideots and Maniacs. 3. Mischief by Infants and Persons insane, (under which latter
appellation are included Ideots and Maniacs,) is provided against
in all civilized Nations by the regulations which place
persons of those descriptions under the guardianship of other particular
persons appointed for that purpose. This source coincides
sometimes with one, sometimes with another, of the sources that here ensue: ensuing;
since it is scarcely in any other way than by putting in action
one or other of that formidable list of physical forces that the
irrational agency of an infant or ideot or a madman can
produce any mischief extensive enough to be entitled to the
appellation of a local calamity.
4. Ravages of Noxious Animals. Animals that may be considered as noxious to man may
be distinguished into such as are noxious to his property alone; and
such as are noxious to his person as well as property. Under the
notion true or false of their being noxious to some article or other of
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