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4 C. P Purposes of Procedure

for the application of punishment in such quantity
of such quality upon such occasions and in such
a manner as have already been determined to be
competent upon the principles laid down in the
former book.

3

This then is the main and only direct and positive end
Direct and positive end of the System of procedure
or purpose of the system of Procedure; viz: the [infliction of a application
punishment +& other preventive expedients according to the prediction given of
+the application of physical coercion
when it is possible
and the bestowal of amends
it ] giving effect to the substantive part of the law.

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But punishment is an evil: the primary consequences
Collateral and negative end - the exclusion of unnecessary mischief.
of the act by which it is inflicted, mischievous: and
it is only in as far as it may be productive of
restraint or compensation, that the secondary consequences
of such act of punishment can be made to outweigh
the primary, so as for the consequences of the punishment act to be beneficial
upon the whole. On this account therefore it is
incumbent on the legislator and the judge to avoid
guard as much as possible against the introduction production
of all mischief which is not conducive and necessary
to the production of that those beneficial desired effects by which
changes the complexion of punishment is changed
from evil into good. This therefore constitutes another
general end or purpose of the system of Procedure

Identifier: | JB/051/312/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3, 1-4
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	312	Info in main headings field	purposes of procedure
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16477
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