JB/071/151/003

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Defraudment by false standards

1 particular regulations can be of service will need to be different
according to the local circumstances of the different countries in
which the several articles happen to be in use. Mean while any
frauds that can be committed in relation to any of those articles
will not go unpunished: since they will all come under the general
head of Sharping. ordinary defraudment.

Instructions to the Legislator

2 The notion of a false standard supposes the existence
of a genuine one. To establish these genuine ones for every purpose
and in every convenient place is the business of the Sovereign.
To give these institutions their full effect and render the
occasions of punishing the offence less frequent the following
expedients might be of use in the character of
preventive measures. might be of use.

I. To establish public standards of each kind in the Metropolis
of every judicial district. See B. Of Procedure.
Tit. Of Jurisdiction.
II. To permit none to be used by any trader but what are
stamped by authority.
III. To cause frequent visitations to be made by certain officers
at unexpected times (which, to ensure their being unexpected,
may be determined by lot) in the Shops of the several Tradesmen; such

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Identifier: | JB/071/151/003"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	003	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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