1818 Aug. 27

Parl. Reform Bill

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§.14. Penal Securities

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As to the {characteristic} misdeeds /characteristic or not characteristic/, in this case as in every other, be they what they may, they will have had for their instrument either force or fraud. In so far as force is the instrument, against these as against others in the case of their employing this for their instrument, provision such as it is, is already made by law: for example the offence called false imprisonment employed in preventing persons entitled to be voters from giving their votes; destruction or detraction[?] of any of the articles forming part of the necessary apparatus above described. Threatening those employed is /would/ force put upon the mind: how far this would be punishable by law as it is, or rather as it is supposed to be, we need not stay long to inquire /it would here be waste of time, thought and paper to inquire/.

In so far as these same misdeeds respectively have fraud for their instrument, such fraud will be found to be mostly if not exclusively a modification of falshood of wilful falshood: always observed that by falshood even when not wilful consequences /evil effects/ of the same nature may in some cases be produced Of falshood thus applied the modifications will be found referable it is believed to one or other of the heads following: to wit 1. Forgery. 2. Fraudulent personation. 3.

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