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2) Pers: Inj: in genl Of the Principles of human action
Were such a case to happen it could be referred to
no other motive than so properly as to that of Avaric Lucre.
Mutilation Mutilation may also take it's rise from the same
motive: as if a man were to castrate one to whose
whom he stood next in Remainder in the settlement was to suceed to an estate in
of an Estate default of Issue. In Roman
Catholic countries men elder brothers do somthing like this, when
to engross to themselves the family estate, they procure
their sisters and younger brethren to be forced into condemned to
Celibacy. Monasteries and Convents. Indeed we have no need to
have recourse to supposition and as to metaphor for an example. In those same countries
The deed is but in too many instances literally, done through this very
motive. I am already, I suppose, understood to have view that instance invention of refined luxury, in which men are deprived of their manhood to improve their for the improvement of their voice. It is often commonly performed by poor parents upon their poor children by their parents, who during the nonage of those children reap the profit of their services.
Imprisonment Imprisonment may also take it's rise from the
same motive. The instance example that served
for the offence of Disablement may serve for
this.
Rape. It is by no means natural for Rape to take
it's rise from such a motive. A case however
of this sort is conceivable. A man wishes to marry
a woman for the sake merely of her money. He
ravishes her, thinking hoping that love may by degrees
take place of resentment, or that the view hope view
of repairing her injured honour may bend her to
his purpose. Were such a case to happen, it
could not be referred with so much propriety to any
other motive as to that of Avarice. Desire of gain
Libidinous assaults. Lascivious treatment In the same manner he exemplified the possible
connection that libidinous assaults terminating short
of Rape may have with the same motive.
Attempts to perpetrate any of the above Injuries
simple personal Injuries excepted may also of course take
their rise from the same motive; just as the injuries themselves
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3) Pers: Inj: in genl Of the Principles of human action.
may, when consummate. Of this no new instance
need be given.
Threats. Threats With regard to Threats indeed when unconditional cannot indeed take no case, I
their rise from give can be in which they
can originate from this motive: when in the alternative,
and the alternative injunction is to pay give money, or
do any act that is of a nature to be profitable to the offender, they obviously
take their rise from it; in any other case,
they do not.
Challenges. Challenges may also take their rise from it: when
the end proposed to be attained in the fighting
is the perpetration of any of those injuries which
have been already made out to be capable of
taking their rise from it.
Self-preservation From Self-preservation, justifiable or unjustifiable Simple Personal Injuries
cannot take their rise
Temporary Disablement may, as may permanent Disablement
and Mutilation as including transitory disablement
So may Homicide and imprisonment, Attempts, Terrification and
Challenges. avoid the attack of his adversary or make A man may make his escape Pay any
of these mean it a man is easy to conceive may make
his escape from a Minister of Justice
The only personal Injuries that can not be concerned
to take their rise from this motive are Simple
Injuries producing mere organical pain, Disfigurement
Rape and Libidinous Assaults
Experience has shewn but too incontestably that there
are minds so depraved, that pain of any kind even
in a person being who has never given them an offence, pain
as such, in whatever shape it shew itself, as matter of
sport to them to observe. We read, says Montesquieu, of
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