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26 C Of Semi-public Offences in general

stealing any of the furniture: and particularly in catholic
countries, the trespassing in any of these ways upon
the bones or other excuvia or other relicks of saints or other sacred persons, images of Jesus or the holy
virgin, or any other objects of religious veneration, especially
those to which a power of working miracles is
attributed. An offense of this sort may occasion a
sensible uneasiness to a whole neighbourhood, or other class
of persons who look upon themselves as possessing a particular
interest in the valuables in question.

Under the second case comes that sort of offense
(where it is decreed an offense) which consists in the
setting up of lotteries: a sort of business trade which
partly for the profit perhaps for the sake of guarding against
fraud, partly for the sake of the honest profit to be
made by it, governments have chosen commonly to
reserve to themselves. (a) All those species of fraud, which are

NOTE

(a) In England projects an undertaking of this nature having in some instances given birth or been thought to give birth to a good deal of fraud, have come to be looked upon with an eye of general reprobation, and have in consequence acquired the nick-name of Bubbles: under which name they have come under the censure of the law. The same name has likewise been applied to



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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

135

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

f25 / f26 / f27 / f28

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

23538

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