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Diss. Of Semi-public offences in general

Circumstances which constitute a semi-public offence out of a private one In the first place it may be laid down as a general
rule, that whatever mischief any offence imports
to an inidvidual, if the same mischief either when
it alights attaches itself affects an number assemblage of individuals
too numerous for them to be individually made to admit of an individual
amends, or before it alights may be seen hovering
over an indefinite assemblage of individuals in
the shape of danger, such offence thereby becomes an
offence of a semi-public nature. The same offence
therefore which for upon it's consummation transforms itself
into a private offence or a cluster of private offences,
may previously to that period may have has existed in the shape of a
semi-public one. Let us now run over the several
divisions of private offences, and observe what shapes are assumed the nature of the
semi-public offences which are respectively connected
with them.

In the case of Simple corporal injuries. 1. With regard to simple corporal injuries. To this division
of private offences correspond the several semi-public
offences commissable by which consist in the carrying on the several sorts of
dangerous or offensive trades and manufactures
in improper places; as likewise other offences already
mentioned under the head of simple corporal injuries.
Destroying of aqueducts, poisoning or drying up of
springs, destroying woods walls or other fences set up
to guard a neighbourhood against the inclemency of the weather might

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Identifier: | JB/071/134/002"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	134	Info in main headings field	of semi-public offences in general
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23537
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