JB/071/136/002

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Of Semi-public Offences in general

Incendiarism, Inundation & Ship-wrecking, so many aggravated species of Destruction — why treated of in terminis. From p. 27. No 1. There are one of two three very particular cases in which
the offence of Destruction and is made to assume brought within
the description of a semi-public offence by the nature
of the instrument employ'd. These are the cases of Incendiarism,
Inundation and Shipwrecking. In the
first of them fire is the instrument; water, in the two last.
The nature of these necessary but oftentimes most deliterious
instruments is such that the mischief which
at a given point of time attaches its effect has as yet alighted upon and perhaps
was levelled at no other than some certain determinate
individuals continues at the same time to
in the shape of danger to hover over the heads
of an assemblage of other individuals numerous or undeterminate
enough to form constitute a class; in which the
cementing principle is constantly the circumstance of
vicinity. These offences are tolerably precise in their
nature independently of the local circumstances of any particular
nation: that and as they are of the
first importance in point of magnitude, it may be
worth while to attempt making provision for them by
a portion of so many distinct titles of law, conceived as
nearly as may be in terminis. To p. 27. No 2

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Identifier: | JB/071/136/002"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	136	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	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
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	23539
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