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Ch. Universal Jurisprudence
(2 §. Remedies
Dolosa. Aye: but can any Equity Judges do. need
in both those cases. Ask Blackstone else.
Astrea. Yes. a remedy which is worse than the
disease. If by the wrong you have lost to the amount £10 paid, they
first make you lose £100, and then for a great number of years they have great
doubts whether longer what to do about the matter and
when you are ruined or dead of a broken heart they
give you either nothing or something which goes to pay
your lawyers.
Gubernia. When the wrong is so in such a degree Gubernia. In some cases, the wrongdoer wrong puts
men in such a passion that I do not know what
I am about: I then
kill the man: but
if he has any money
I can get at, I put
it into my own
pocket. Sister Felicia
would I warrant have
given it to the party wronged
in case of a murder, to the
widow and children of the party murdered. That's because she is such a
simpleton.
be
in a passion I put a man to death deprive the wrongdoer of life
I give to What need I care about the party wronged? Why should I? What should I get by giving him the money? What
matters what/as to he sup matters it to me — what he suffers? Not a straw: does
it Professor Blackstone
Blackstone from below. No, indeed Madam, as you say not a straw:
if the satisfaction
you give to the public as could it by the of his passion discipline of him so being so very great + you give to yourself
by seeing him the other person suffer.
+ to an
Dolosa Blackstone you do not know what you are[+] [+] saying. satisfaction
to the public you should
have said.
Blackstone. Madam
I stand corrected: the
press shall be corrected
accordingly.
Felicia. Would we the public be the less satisfied, if
the individual wronged was satisfied too?
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