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8. C

Of Simple Mercantile Defraudment

1 as having no fixed abode carry their goods about the country on their
backs or sell them in the streets of a town in
moveable stalls or barrows. To responsible persons
it ought only to be applied for the 3d
offence, or, in very gross cases, for the 2d. To p. 3.

Question I.

From p. 7 13 No 1. Why the punishment for simple mercantile
defraudment is made liable to a mitigation
which is not allow'd of in the
case of ordinary defraudment?

Reasons

Because the offender in this case is In case of mercantile fraud, the offender is much more
likely to be responsible than in any of those others. He may be a
man of great repute; and of the first class
for opulence in the country. When this is the Now the more
considerable his rank and opulence are, the more may be
exquisitely commonly will his sensibility be:
insomuch that a fine when added to the disgrace
inseparably attendant on conviction
may be as severe a punishment to him, as
the corporal ignominy and the harder other corporal
punishments put together would be to the an
offender of the lower class. See Introd. Ch [Of proportion &c]
What Whatever is above that mark would therefore
be needless. See Introd. Ch [Cases &c] To p. 13. No 2

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2, 1
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	154	Info in main headings field	of simple mercantile defraudment
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with crown motif]]]
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