JB/051/298/001

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Secret Committees 3. Enquiries relative to the circumstances of parties As to the extending of the veil of secrecy to incidental
questions touching the pecuniary circumstances
of parties this is an instance in which the propriety
and importance of such an extensive case
not be fully judged of till the occasions which
may call for such enquiry come to be specified.
The adjustment of pecuniary punishment and
of pecuniary compensation satisfaction to the respective circumstances of
the parties was the purpose I had principally
in view. In the former case the mere obligation of
discovering laying open to all the world the situation of a man's affairs may
of itself be a punishment in many cases severer
than that which was intended by the law. In
the latter case this punishment would might fall equally
upon the innocent no less heavy than upon and the guilty and injured
to whom the satisfaction was meant to be
administered given than upon the injurer at whose
expence it was meant to be given. True it is
that where the whole amount of what is necessary
to compose a compleat satisfaction is forthcoming any inquiry into
the pecuniary circumstances of the party who is
to receive it would be altogether useless and impertinent:
but this is not the case where the burthen
of satisfaction has risen to the utmost amount of
what is requisite to answer the ends of punishment as

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Identifier: | JB/051/298/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	298	Info in main headings field	obs.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16463
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