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C 27
Of Semi-public Offences in general.
to various levelled at all persons without distinction, before
they alight upon any to wit defraudment by
false standards, by bad coin, and by in the way of begging, possibly
also ordinary mercantile defraudment and might
perhaps without impropriety be referred to in common this head:
as may the rest in many cases. To draw the line exactly
is not very easy, nor happily is it material. To p. 30. at top
2 9. Offences against Reputation. From p. 30 at bottom 9. Offences against reputation. These are very apt
to assume the nature of semi-public offences. This
is the case as often as a particular class of persons
such as the natives of a particular country or district,
the professors of a particular religion, the members of
a particular profession, or any other set of people who by
NOTE continued
various partnership adventures money-getting projects into which all persons without
distinction or reserve were to be admitted, and which on that account,
as it should seem, were thought to open too wide
a door to fraud, embezzlement and peculation; and
have accordingly been included in the same like prohibition.
The concern of each pecuniary was interest of the several beneficiaryes were in many instances very small: and on that account
it might often be not worth their while to seek redress
in case of imposition. The beneficiaries, considering the smallness
of the state might might & would for the most part be in poor circumstances,
and on that account not able to seek redress
were they disposed. These circumstances were supposed to be
of such a nature as to hold out too great a temptation to dishonesty
on the part of the trustees. This at least seems to have been the ostensible +
+ Here continue this in another . Work not to much of inflation as of passion raised by the of present calamities at particular conjunctions dealing about prohibitions at random in Black Act At bottom a pro religium
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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