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38 Pt. IV. C Reasons Of Frauds relative to the Coin. Reasons

worth while to detract from the simplicity of the Law for the sake


Note.

either false money in payment: or at the time of such tendering have
more in his custody; he is for the First Offence to suffer a year's
Imprisonment, and, for the second Offence, Death.

Temerity of this presumption. In no state of things could a remedy so violent and hazardous
as this be advantageous. When the Coingage is in a good state;
when there is not much bad Coin current in a country; it never
can be needful :+ + See Introd: Ch. of [Cases unmeet for Punishment] is improper. when the Coinage is in a very bad State such a remedy
will either be inefficacious or unprofitable.+ Unless the Law
be strictly executed it will not put a stop to the obnoxious practice;
and if it be, the mischief of execution may be greater than
the service done by the suppression of the offence. the worse State
the Coinage is in, the more apt is the person who is to receive,
to be negligent about the money he accepts; much more the person
who is to pay, about the money which he offers. The only
ground upon which any thing can be said in favour of a provision
of such severity in such a case is this: that the putting
of bad Money under such circumstances is looked upon as conclusive evidence of complicity with the coiners: upon which ground
punishing the transaction above described is taking an evidentiary
act and turning it into a principal Offence. But in a bad state of the



Identifier: | JB/071/169/002"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

169

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

f37 / f38 / f39 / f40

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline fox

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23572

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