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34 C Reasons Of Frauds relative to the Coin.

2. The Punishment if it were not groundless would be unprofitable:
when it is only by a single piece or by a very few
pieces at a time that a man puts off bad money it is impossible
to know by this circumstance alone that he really knows
it to be bad: so that allowing of prosecutions in such a case
would be more likely to be productive of vexation to the innocent, than to be of any use towards the prevention of delinquency.(a) Quest.II.

Note.

The particular subject matter of this Note, it will be observed,
is local: but the general cautions that may be deduced from it are1
applicable to the Laws of all countries alike as well as to all manner
of offences. I thought, therefore, there would be no harm, in suffering It seemed therefore, that if permitted to stand, it
it to stand. might not be without its use .

(a) Provision in a British Law punishing on Presumption of Complicity. According to a British Statute (15. Geo. II. Ch. 28. S. 2)
a a severe punishment is inflicted on any man who utters counterfeit
money knowing it to be so, though there be no proof
of his being in confederacy with the coiner, and without making
any distinction in favour of a man who has taken bad

Identifier: | JB/071/168/002"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	168	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33 / f34 / f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23571
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