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Objections to this mode of supply I have looked round for, and
find none.
I know not whether a measure of this sort
will to any one's eyes bear would in any eyes give it any nor would wear the semblance of
injustice: it certainly does not stand chargeable
with the reality. Inju
Injustices considered as committable by the
legislator is corruptible of two degrees which
it is very highly material to distinguish: the first
where the mischief confines itself
Injustice in matters of property consists
in thwarting expectation. As expectation is equally
capable of being thwarted by legislation dispositions
as by judicial decisions, objective the operations
of the Legislator are certainly as much exposed
to this charge as those of the Judge. In
either hand it is susceptible of two different degrees,
which it is highly material to distinguish:
the first ⊞ ⊞ where the suffering produced consists merely of a pain of disappointment and confines itself to the persons immediately affected and their particular connections where the mischief confines is confined itself to
the production of a pain of disappointment
in the parties party immediate sufferer: the
other, where the operation being appearing the result of a
principle which if pursued would endanger property
in general, is productive of a general pain
of
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see note to letter 680, vol. 4 |
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