JB/071/151/001

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5 C Of Defraudment by false standards

1 Punishment . For being concerned
in cheating by false standards of weight or measure or by the
fraudulent application of just standards of weight or measure the offender's
punishment shall be as follows:
1. He shall be made to do public penance in a peculiar manner.
see Tit. [Punishments.]
2. In other respects he may be punished as for simple mercantile
Frauds: which See.

2 From p.6

Exposition.

[(A) Cheating] Or fraudulently obtaining. See Tit. [Sharping]
[(D) False Themselves] It matters not whether the standards in question were never
conformable to the public standard, or whether having originally
been so they have since been rendered unconformable ; as by filing away
a part of a standard weight, or of one of the arms of a balance, or
cutting off a part of a standard measure of length or beating in the
bottom, or putting a false bottom to a measure of capacity,. except All
the difference is that the criminal consciousness may more easily appear manifest in the
former case than in the latter . To p. 6. No 2

3 From p. 2 [(C) Standards Weight] 1. It matters not in what way the instrument employed
as standards purport to indicate the weight of the commodity in

Identifier: | JB/071/151/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 1-2
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	151	Info in main headings field	defraudment by false standards
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[ec with crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23554
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