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C 1.
Of Criminal Waste or Devastation Destruction or Endamagement
Criminal Destruction or Waste or Devastation Endamagement. defined. To p. 5 No 3. From p. 6. Unlawful Criminal Wrongful Waste or Devastation Destruction or Endamagement (a) is where
a man through malice or wantonness or for
fame is concerned in damaging (B) or destroying (C)
a thing that possesses a value (D) worth regarding; (E) Divide it into 1. Excusable 2. Furtive, or Clandestine 3. Pervicacious or Perverse.
knowing that it possesses such a value, and
that he has no right (F) so to be concerned
dealing with it in that , and intending
not to be amenable (G) for it to Law, in any shape. Exposition
Notes.
From p. 5
(a) It is difficult to find a word in English that
exactly corresponds to the idea meant to be given
of this offence. The Expression Malicious Mischief
which is the expression employed by some Writers
is too narrow in the first of its terms,
and too wide in the other. The term Malicious
is too narrow; for the motive may be wantonness
or lucre as well as malice. The term
mischief is too wide: for mischief of some kind
or other is what continual to
the common result of every offence. The term
Waste when taken by itself will hardly answer
the purpose: in an oeconomical sense it signifies
either the fenssive or negative quality of the effect produced in a household or an estate by the want of
frugality: in the technical sense given it by the English
Law it means the damage done or sufferd to be to
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