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Introduction

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Preface by the Translator of M.D. Voltaire's Commentary

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Chapter I - On the Origin of Punishments

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Chapter II - On the Right to Punish

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Chapter III - Consequences of the foregoing principles

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Chapter IV - Of the Interpretation of Laws

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Chapter V - Of the Obscurity of Laws

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Chapter VI - Of the Proportion between Crimes and Punishments

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Chapter VII - Of Estimating the Degree of Crimes

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Chapter VIII - Of the Division of Crimes

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Chapter IX - Of Honour

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Chapter X - Of Duelling

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Chapter XI - Of Crimes which Disturb Public Tranquillity

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Chapter XII - Of the Intent of Punishments

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Chapter XIII - Of the Credibility of Witnesses

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Chapter XIV - Of Evidence and the Proofs of a Crime, and of the Form of Judgment

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Chapter XV - Of Secret Accusation

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Chapter XVI - Of Torture

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Chapter XVII - Of Pecuniary Punishments

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Chapter XVIII - Of Oaths

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Chapter XIX - Of the Advantage of Immediate Punishment

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Chapter XX - Of Acts of Violence

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Chapter XXI - Of the Punishment of the Nobles

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Chapter XXII - Of Robbery

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Chapter XXIII - Of Infamy considered as a Punishment

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Chapter XXIV - Of Idleness

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Chapter XXV - Of Banishment and Confiscation

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Chapter XXVI - Of the Spirit of Family in States

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Chapter XXVII - Of the Mildness of Punishments

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Chapter XXVIII - Of the Punishment of Death

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Chapter XXIX - Of Imprisonment

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Chapter XXX - Of Prosecution and Prescription

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Chapter XXXI - Of Crimes of Difficult Proof

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Chapter XXXII - Of Suicide

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Chapter XXXIII - Of Smuggling

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Chapter XXXIV - Of Bankrupts

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Chapter XXXV - Of Sanctuaries

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Chapter XXXVI - Of Rewards for Apprehending or Killing Criminals

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Chapter XXXVII - Of Attempts, Acomplices and Pardon

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Chapter XXXVIII - Of Suggestive Interrogations

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Chapter XXXIX - Of a Peculiar Kind of Crimes

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Chapter XL - Of False Ideas of Utility

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Chapter XLI - Of the Means of Preventing Crimes

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Chapter XLII - Of the Sciences

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Chapter XLIII - Of Magistrates

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Chapter XLIV - Of Rewards

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Chapter XLV - Of Education

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Chapter XLVI - Of Pardons

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Chapter XLVII - Conclusion

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Commentary - Chapter I - The Circumstances that Occasioned this Commentary

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Commentary - Chapter II - Of Punishments

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Commentary - Chapter III - Of the Punishment of Heretics

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Commentary - Chapter IV - Of the Extirpation of Heresies

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Commentary - Chapter V - Of Blasphemy and Profanation

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Commentary - Chapter VI - Of the Indulgence of the Romans in Matters of Religion

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Commentary - Chapter VII - Of the Crime of Unlawful Preaching - Story of Anthony

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Commentary - Chapter VIII - The Story of Simon Morin

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Commentary - Chapter IX - Of Witches

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Commentary - Chapter X - Of Capital Punishment

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Commentary - Chapter XI - Of the Execution of Sentences

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Commentary - Chapter XII - Of Torture

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Commentary - Chapter XIII - Of Certain Sanguinary Tribunals

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Commentary - Chapter XIV - Of the Difference Between Political and Natural Laws

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Commentary - Chapter XV - Of the Crime of High Treason - Of Titus Oates and of the Death of Augustine de Thou

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Commentary - Chapter XVI - Of the Revealing of Crimes (Before Commission) by Religious Confession

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Commentary - Chapter XVII - Of Counterfeiting Money

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Commentary - Chapter XVIII - Of Domestic Theft

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Commentary - Chapter XIX - Of Suicide

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Commentary - Chapter XX - Of a Certain Species of Mutilation

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Commentary - Chapter XXI - Of the Confiscation Consequent upon all the Crimes which Have Been Mentioned

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Commentary - Chapter XXII - Of Criminal Proceedings, and of Some Other Forms of Procedure

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Commentary - Chapter XXIII - The Idea of a Reform Suggested