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1826 April 30.
Penal Code
Ch. III. Division of offences

N.B. ☞ Here, or under Ch. Progress of evil and good &c Public Wrongs are on the footing of Offences affecting trust: viz. 1. Against practice
2. By

Art 1. In the case of semi-publick offences,
the degree of evil produced is altogether different
and even opposite, according as it is the
person or the property that is affected by the offence.

Where it is the person, the quantity of magnitude of the evil produced,
being the same in both cases, the greater
the number of the persons affected by it, the greater is
the evil of suffering produced: if in addition to one
individual in whose tenor breast was intended to be produced,
there are twenty others, n whose breast the
same tenor is produced, the aggregate quantity of
suffering is multiplied by twenty.

Where it is the property, the magnitude of
the sum destroyed or taken in the way of depredation
being given, and the share of each person
co proprietor in it, the same, the effect of the
number is not to augment but to diminish
the aggregate of the suffering: in a word, the
quantity of suffering produced by a loss is lessened,
ceteris paribus, the greater the number of
shares into which the loss is divided.

This is the principle in part acted upon
in English aw by the arrangements by which, in the case under
certain circumstances damage is done to an individual, the
loss is transferred upon a fund raised by contributions exacted from
the whole taxable inhabitants of the country.

Identifier: | JB/068/048/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 68.
Date_1	1826-04-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	068	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field	penal code
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	john neal	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	22243
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