JB/016/235/001

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1828. Jany. 30
Law Amendments, or Duelling ExtinguishablePropositions

appeals may encrease
Death to save expence

To extinction of life disfigurement in a certain shape
would on a variety of accounts be a most useful substitute: say for example, excision
of one or both lips.

1. &c It woul stands free from all the objections
above brought to view.

In itself indeed it is not susceptible of more than
those two three gradations excision of the the lip by which
least disfigurement would be produced: 2. excision of the lip
by which the greatest degree of disfigurement would be produced
3. excision of both lips.

But between these, by marking in the way of tattooing on different parts of
the human frame the face included other gradations would
be afforded between those just mentioned.

Moreover where disfigurement in any of those shapes
is employed imprisonment might be, and in most if not
all cases naturally would be employed.

Moreover a grand distinction in favour of disfigurement
in this preference to homicidal punishment is this: in the case
of homicidal punishment, the multitude of the offender is a
circumstance by which limits always are and always must
be set to the proportion ratio of the instances in which it is executed
to those in which it is not executed: and the greater that
ratio – the greater less the uncertainty certainty, and the less the repressive
force of the punishment the greater the encouragement plenty given to the
crime.

Identifier: | JB/016/235/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 16.
Date_1	1828-01-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	016	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	235	Info in main headings field	law amendments, or duelling extinguishable
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1***
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	6042
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