JB/071/159/002

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Of Simple Mercantile Defraudment Theft Embezzlement and Fraudulent obtainment

Fraud mercantile less than half an hour nor more than three hours in
the whole

2. Besides this He may be punished as for the Theft to
the amount of the profit which he made or attempted to
make by the offence or for a second offence by being confined
to hard labour for any time not longer than a year
So instead of all other punishment he may be fined to
the amount of not less than twice the profit of the offence.

Instructions to the Judge

The ignominious punishment above appointed
ought not for the first offence to be applied to persons of
any degree of responsibility: for instance to persons
who have established shops or warehouses. It ought
only to be applied to the inferior class of traders whose
stock is portable: such for instance as carry their goods about the country on their backs or sell about
them in the streets of a town in moveable stalls or barrows and are called
Hawkers and Pedlars. To responsible persons it ought only —

Identifier: | JB/071/159/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	159	Info in main headings field	theft embezzlement and fraudulent obtainment
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 f27 / f28
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23562
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