JB/047/109/002

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Pecuniary punishments

Pecuniary punishments they are purported of
these advantages they are 1. susceptibility of graduation.
-2. they fulfillment of and of the punishment,
3 - subservient to compensation. But it must
be observed be recollection, that a pecuniary
punishment, if the sum is the same
in all cases, it is the highest degree unequal.
This observation, the justice of which is so
obvious, has however been neg neglected
by all legislation. Pecuniary penalties have
awarded without any regard being paid to
the profit of the offence, to the mischief of
the offences as to the pecuniary circumstances
of the delinquent. Thus to some it is a
mere trifle, to others ruin. We may
serve to remember the story of the young
Roman who saw a fox as the ear to carry body
he met, and immediately presented them.
with with the forced by the laws of
the 12 Twelve Tables. If pecuniary punishments
are to be employed, let them be proportioned
to the pecuniary circumstances of the delinquent.
Let the at relative proportion of the penalty be
fluid and not its absolute quantity. For
such an offence, with a proportions of the
property of the delinquent, certain regulations
being established to prevent any obstacles that
mighten from arise from requiring a literal
execution of this rule.

Identifier: | JB/047/109/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14977
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