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66
C
Reasons Of Frauds relative to the Coin.
instrumental in producing; he is not even sure that he shall
produce any. He knows not the person on whom it will
fall. He knows perhaps the person to on whom he it has passed
off the bad money; but he knows not (since it is what
in general nobody can know), whether the least part of it
will ultimately rest upon that person. In this respect it stands
in some measure upon a footing with smuggling and other Offences
against the Revenue: offences which are never so unpopular
as it is to be wished they were. It does not, it is true,
stand altogether upon so good a footing: since the distress
produced by the offence is not so perfectly out of sight in
the former case as in the latter. Still however it is much
more out of sight than in the Cases of Theft and Sharping:
and is therefore likely to be looked upon with more indulgence.
2. 2. It will not take away a man's Livelyhood. Because it is not likely in this case as in others to deprive
him of his livelyhood. If a man was to be pointed out
wherever he went as a Sharper or a Thief, people would conclude that
Identifier: | JB/071/186/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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not numbered |
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071 |
penal code |
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186 |
of frauds relative to the coin |
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002 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f65 / f66 / f67 / f68 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]] |
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caroline fox |
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23589 |
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