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15. C Of Semi-public Offences in General.
of man's property, various races of animals have been prescribed; at
while under the same notion the same time that other races of animals inimical to the former
have been protected while has been thence while to others equally noxious to the lower classes that is to the bulk of mankind. The proscription has of course been sanctioned
by rewards: the protection, by penal laws. It is evident, that The former
course, has as <add>is the only one of the two</add>, the only one that could have, been taken to any purpose with animals
whose fierceness is such as to render them formidable to man himself.
5. 5. Collapsion. Collapsion respects either natural masses of matter or artificial.
With regard to the former the prevention of it is one of the objects
of authority in mining countries: it is also said to be an
object of regulation in mountainous districts where the explosion
of a Gun would be sufficient in certain situations to put
in motion such a body of snow as might be fatal to the persons
of travellers and even ruinous to the dwellings of the inhabitants.
With regard to edifices it is one of the objects in view
in the regulations that are frequently made respecting the
mode of building in great towns.
6. 6. Inundation. Inundation is of course the object of many anxious regulations
in countries that are exposed to the inroads of the Sea,
or of great rivers. In the way of administration, governments the sovereign
are is in many places at vast expences in erecting and maintaining
artificial barriers against the incursions of that formidable
element: in the way of legislation, it is his care to prohibit every practice
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