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SECT. Parts of a Law.
and what are the private wrongs for it to redress?
and how does it redress them? Yet "every Law
may be said to consist of" this Law "part" as well as of the
other three.
The Sanctional or vindicatory part of branch (for
that now for ornament's sake the word part is
changed into branch agreably to a practise constantly
observed by our Author in this philosophical
Introduction). The Sanctional or vindicatory
branch is that "whereby it is signified
"what evil or penalty shall be incurred by such as committ
"any public wrongs, and transgress or
"neglect their duty".
Thus in the first place Laws that concern private wrongs merely, have no such thing
belonging to them as a Sanction: and yet at tje same time that every
Law may be said to consist of this part as
well as of the other three.
In the next place this Sanctional part [it] turns
out a little further on,† † p.56 to be is of two sorts: sometimes
vindicatory, sometimes remuneratory: the
vindicatory consisting in punishments (for he
would scorn to mention) "evil" or "penalty" twice
over: the remuneratory in "actual particular
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