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The Penal Code of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic: ‘Article 10. Persons who commit socially dangerous acts shall be liable to the application of measures of social defence of a judicial-correctional character only—

(a) if they acted deliberately, i.e., if they foresaw the socially dangerous consequences of their acts, or desired those consequences, or knowingly permitted them to happen, or

(b) if they acted carelessly, i.e., if they did not foresee the consequences of their acts although they ought to have foreseen them, or if they light-mindedly hoped to avert auch consequences.’

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1 Analytically, it is very easy to find fault with Article 10: for example, it appears to adopt Austin's definition of Intention (Lecture 19, p. 434); but, ‘if they foresaw the socially dangerous consequences of their acts’ and ‘or if they light-mindedly hoped to avert such consequences’ leave us wondering whether an act, plus foresight, but with no desire, is classified as Intention or Negligence. But this is mere academic quibbling; the Article furnishes a sound practical working rule.

2 ‘The case where an offender could neither know that his conduct was wrong, nor that it was legally punishable, will be obviously exempted from criminal liability under any but the most irrationally tyrannical government’: Clark, , Analysis of Criminal Liability, 63.Google Scholar

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16 This is not meant to be controversial, but to discuss various viewpoints which the student can follow up.

17 ‘If the different states of criminal consciousness can be designated by different terms, there can be no benefit in confusing them by the misuse of a word clearly enough understood in ordinary parlance.’ Clark, , 79.Google Scholar Probably no one will agree with my use of terms, but I like them. They are simple and convey the idea simply. Compare Stroud, 6: ‘Full Intention’ and ‘Imperfect Intention’: and Austin, Lecture 19.

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35 I prefer the view taken by Austin that where there is foresight it is not negligence at all. Also Ewing, The Morality of Punishment, 54, ‘Carelessness is more dangerous to society than criminal propensities (being much more widespread) and ought to be punished accordingly.’ See Clark, , 54Google Scholar and Findlay J. in Davis & Wife (1937)Google ScholarTimes, 4, 5, 6 May, a conviction for manslaughter by gross negligence, but there was no foresight.

36 E.g., Food and Drugs Act, 1938, s. 9, (3): ‘or he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained.’ There are many recent statutes so worded; the effect is to put on the defence the burden of proving that there was no negligence.

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69 Assize of Clarendon, 1166, 2 P. & M. 454.

70 I am afraid this is pure speculation; I have no authority for it.

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81 See North Carolina State Constitution, 1862, ‘To know the right but still the wrong to pursue proceeds from a perverse will brought about by the seductions of the evil one.’

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86 Compare the indices to Statutes; Archbold (indictable offences), 34 double-column pages of fine print; Stone, 143double-column; Clerk and Lindsell, Torts, 10 pages; Addison, Contract, 13 pages.

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