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3 C Simple Mercantile Defraudment

From p. 8. No 1

Instructions to the Legislator

Here come in a multitude of different regulations
respecting the different wares and commodities the
which and works <add>different sorts of work which</add> may give occasion to this offence.
[+] [+] Examples of such regulations are found in abundance in the laws of almost all the modern nations of Europe. But the natures of the wares and commodities and works are in
use are infinitely diversified by the influence
of local circumstances. To enter into such details
would therefore be incompetent to the present
purpose.

Frauds also may be combated to advantage
in the way of indirect legislation: to wit
by regulations the object of which is to render fraud them
physically speaking, more difficult to practise, by rendering them more
at open to detection. Such are those establishing
particular weights measures, tests and other
standards, as also particular methods of rules and directions for applying them. These regulations it is evident must
be altogether as various as the others.

One expedient there is, the application which will admitt
of which is pretty extensive application.. it is obvious that
in regard to many kinds of merchandise , a fraud
practised in one instance affords a very strong and natural



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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-2

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

152

Info in main headings field

simple mercantile defraudment

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

alexander mavrokordatos

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23555

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