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Pt IV . 45 C Of Frauds relative to the Coin. Reasons

A man's not being obliged to accept makes no difference. only Coin which a man is obliged to accept in payment : unless
it be such foreign Coin as the State has thought proper to adopt:
which puts it upon the footing of domestic . On this account it may
be thought that the counterfeiting of the former is more mischievous
than the counterfeiting of the latter. But this objection,
when examined, will be found to be of little force. A piece
of domestic Coin, if it happens to be counterfeit, he is no more
obliged to take, than he is to take counterfeit foreign Coin.
When a piece of counterfeit domestic Coin then is tendered to him,
if he suspects it, measures are taken, I suppose, by the Laws of
all Countries, to give him a right to put it to the test at his
peril; so that if it turns out not to be good, the loss falls not
upon him but upon the tenderer. This obligation to accept is a
circumstance that applies not in one case out of ten thousand.
In ordinary Cases where a man accepts money, it is not that
he is forced but that he chuses so to do. The question then upon
which the mischief turns is whether there be any case in
which a man would have an adequate inducement to accept
of the counterfeit foreign Coin , if he did not suspect it so to be. Now

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	181	Info in main headings field	of frauds relative to the coin
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f45 / f46 / f47 / f48
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23584
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