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to depend, as it has almost always hitherto been
made to depend upon the pecuniary solvency of the offender.
For in general the longer the delay is, the longer time
there is given for the assets to be consumed.
If there be any exception to this rule, three
in the case circumstances must concur to form it:
the assets must consist solely in the growing produce of the
offenders' labour: the punishment must be such
as admitts of his carrying on that labour: and
means must be provided for compelling him
so to do.

6. In case of innocence,
ground- less
punishment.

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6. The case is much worse where the party
suspected and prosecuted actually turns out to
be innocent. In this case the punishment is additional quantity of
suffering produced by the delay is
not only superfluous, but fundamentally unjust
and groundless. It is not only in itself
an evil, as is the case when it is simply
superfluous: but it is pernicious in its consequences:
pernicious in virtue of the alarm which
it inspires: similar to the alarm which is
propagated by a crime.

Refer this to simple 6. unequal punishment of persons <add> innocent — Difference between
Difference between alarm of an unjust punishment. dolo, culpa per infortunium. This will come in after the ways in which the
Judge may fail have been considered.

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Identifier: | JB/051/316/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	19-24, 1-3
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	316	Info in main headings field	of the purposes of procedure
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16481
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