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reiteration may be produced.

As to the punishments in so
far as the narrowness of the territory
will admit and the magnitude
of the mischief coupled with
the degree of malignity on which
depends the mischief of the second
order afford a warrant, presence
banishment presents itself as
applying here with eminent propriety:
always observing that presence
banishment though in name and in
generically speaking but one thing will
always require to be adapted by the
sentence so individual circumstances
for which purpose the
personal examination of both
parties or at any rate of the convict
defendant will commonly
be necessary.

In applying the principle

of utility to the field of penal law
I had two opposite tasks to perform,
one was, clearing it of species of

action which do appeared not belong to


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it i-e not to present a demand
for sufferance in any shape or degree
in the name of punishments satisfaction,
or costs of suit; the other ye
inserting in it species of action
which did appear to belong to it
viz — on one or other or all of those
accounts, but, as far as it had fallen
in my way to observe had never in
any existing Code has yet been inserted
into it. In punishment & as above
I believe I should have added
in certain cases finding security
to abstain from the commission
of such or such an offence of
which whether from mischievous
intention, carelessness, or rashness
sufficient cause has been
found for endeavouring to prevent
at the expense of the quantity
of vexation inevitably produced
by such proceedure.

For their only guide the
good folks whom you have to
deal with seem, as as might


Identifier: | JB/010/038/002
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

010

Main Headings

Folio number

038

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

correspondence

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

Penner

john herbert koe

Watermarks

<…>co

Marginals

Paper Producer

a. levy

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

draft of letter 2425, vol. 9

ID Number

3474

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