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Simple Personal Injuries

A Simple personal
injury what

A simple personal injury is where without
lawful cause a man is wilfully instrumental
in occasioning or attempts or offers to occasion bodily pain harm or bodily uneasiness
or the immediate apprehension of bodily pain harm or uneasiness
to another, without intending him
any further mischief.

A personal insult is where by look or gesture
or by rude treatment offer'd to the person
of another a man expresses contempt for him
or endeavours to bring expose him to contempt.

Explanation
Exposition

It matters not how the pain or uneasiness
or the apprehension of it is occasioned. It may be occasioned, for instance by beating, whipping
or wounding, with or without an instrument: by
a stream of fire water air or light; by presenting
a loathsome object to the touch, taste, smell
hearing or sight:[+]
[+] by forcibly administering a
drug producing any
bodily indisposition.
by instigating making a dog or other
animal serve as an instrument; or by artifice false
making -representations or other artifice-making an innocent
person or the party himself answer that purpose:
for instance by persuading him to walk into
a snare or pitfall, or to take an unwholesome drug, or to expose himself to circumstances
injurious to
his health.

It matters not how slight the contact is by which the
uneasiness is produced. Any touch, however slight may be sufficient
to produce[+]
[+]uneasiness in a man if
it be against his will.

Lawful causes
what

[Lawful cause exists in the following
cases.] There are sorts of lawful causes
for occasioning bodily pain or uneasiness in another.

1. [acting as in con or under a magistrate] or by in pursuance of his authority of a ] given
executing legal powers committed given to a magistrate. him by Law.

2. exercising powers of correction [given by
the law to persons in certain private capacities.

3. defending one's self or any other person against
a personal injury ( defending) one's possessions
or any other person's possessions against unlawful

A Lawful Cause and
an Excuse, what.

A lawful cause is any circumstance or combination of circumstances
the existence of which constitutes a compleat justification: the effect of a
lawful cause is to exempt a man from all
punishment. An excuse exempts him more or less from punishment.

Identifier: | JB/073/076/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 73.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4, 7, 6, 5
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	076	Info in main headings field	simple personal injuries
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23916
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