[...?] 1804

Evidence

Ch [...?]

 Assess Forgery of Real - and all the other modifications of circumstantial.

Ch. Interception of criminative evidence.

By the interception of criminative evidence I mean the preventing it from coming into existence. The explanatory locution would have been more expressive, but it would have been too long to be employed in the character of a subject of predication.

Under the notion of the act must to this purpose /on this occasion/ be understood to be included that of the endeavour.

The evidence considered on this occasion as capable of being intercepted or endeavoured to be intercepted may of course be any species of evidence whatsoever: real, or personal; personal whether exhibited by testimony, by passive /active/ deportment of by active /passive/.

In so far as it bears reference to real evidence, interception of evidence is closely allied to forgery of real evidence in /under/ one of its shapes /modifications/, viz: [.../] obliterative. They /There/ exist not however between them the two notions in any case any coincidence: of neither of them is the denomination capable of being applied /employed/ to denote the other. Obliterative forgery - obliteration - supposes the evidence previously in existence: interception supposes it not to have been previously in existence

Forgery is moreover confined to real evidence, including written evidence in respect of that part of its nature whereby it coincides with, and forms a species /constitutes a modification/ of real evidence.

Interception, as already noted, applies to every modification of evidence - without exception - personal as well as real.

 Go on with 1. Productive causes 2. Infirmative facts - Reference to the species intercepted.