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1828. Jany. 14
Law Amendment or Penal CodePropositions
8. Incongruity the 8th. Non-administration Non-provision of compensation
or satisfaction in any shape to the parties injured:
that is to say to the post-obituary representatives of the
slayee.
Mind here the inconsistency. For any the most trifling
injury corporal injury compensation is professed
provided professed to be provided, and in the few individual instances
in which the cost of pursuing the remedy do not render
it an aggravation of the disorder, actually provided.
Its Swell the loss to such a pitch disorder into a
compound complicated one including loss of life to one individual, and loss
means of subsistence to others in an unlimited number,
a loss exceeding that of forfeiture of property actually in possession,
the compensation that had been given in the less afflictive
case is withdrawn in those so much more highly
afflictive cases.
But this anomaly has its cause. What is it?
It is this: it has its root source in primævil barbarism.
Homicide was felony: and to declare an act felony
was to give his property to the King. The King had an
in It was the King's interest that crimes wrongs should
be remain unredressed, and that the number of crimes of
– of crimes of all shades – the deepest not excepted – the
number should be maximized. From that foul a source
thus flo foul flowed no small part of his revenue: and
from the source into
the treasures no money
could find its way
that had not been sold
over the gradation of
the law,
and from this source into the treasures no money could f
It was by the plunder of the innocent, in the name
of justice that Henry the seventh made himself the richest
Monarch of the Christian world.
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