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SLAVE TRADE ACT 1824 - SECT 5

Penalty for embarking capital in the slave trade, &c.

5. If any persons shall knowingly and wilfully lend or advance, or become
security for the loan or advance, or shall contract for the lending or
advancing, or becoming security for the loan or advance of money, goods, or
effects employed or to be employed in accomplishing any of the objects, or the
contracts in relation to the objects, which objects and contracts have
herein-before been declared unlawful, then and in every such case the persons
so offending, ..., shall forfeit and pay for every such offence double the
value of all the money, goods, and effects so lent, advanced, or secured or so
contracted for as aforesaid, to be recovered and applied as is herein-after
mentioned and provided.


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