Jonathan Wild (1743) [ Practices ]
… an absolute contempt of those ridiculous distinctions of meum and tuum, which would cause endless disputes did not the law happily decide them by converting both into suum. The common form of exchanging property by trade seemed to him too … no, you can prove none." "I will undertake," cries the other, "to shew I have an absolute right to it, and that by the laws of our gang, of which I am providentially at the head." "I know not who put you at the head of it," cries Blueskin; … or pleasure, or humour: but in an illegal society or gang, as this of ours, it is otherwise..." … Fiction … Taverns … Law … Taken from Henry Fielding, The History Of The Life Of The Late Mr. Jonathan Wild The Great, in The Works Of Henry …
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