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1822 Oct. 7 Tripoli Securities against Misrule
1822 Oct. 7 Tripoli Securities against Misrule ?.9. VIII Misuse of Writings

If by legal means obtained /employed [...?]/ for the purpose of obtaining

evidence of this or that act of delinquency, or of the correspondent

non-delinquency, or in support of this or that particular right, writings or

other documents capable of serving as evidence respecting any other supposed

offence or right, the evidence thus obtained may be employed accordingly. But if

in this way possession or inspection has been obtained of writings or other

documents by the publicity /disclosure/ of which evil in any shape has been

produced to any person without service rendered to justice in any shape as

above, for such evil all parties concerned in the production if it shall be

responsible to the purpose of reparation, or punishment, or both as the case may

require.

If for the purpose of producing serious evil by disclosure of writings or other

documents evidence not applicable to any other than a trivial offence or a

trivial right be obtained, though it be by legal means, all persons knowingly

concerned in such inspection or divulgation shall be responsible to the purpose

of reparation or punishment or both. But from the punishment deduction may be

made proportioned to any such good as shall be deemed to have been produced by

the production of such evidence.

Note(a) Example. For the purpose of causing a person to be disinherited or

otherwise made to suffer by an over-severe or capricious /tyrannical/ father,

husband or master, an adversary /enemy/ obtains by legal means in company with

documents applicable to the purpose of a trivial offence or right others which

by means of some exasperation produce the evil effect intended as above.
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