JB/071/014/001

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1 C Of Extenuations — Reasons

Question I

Why a total want of intention unaccompanied
by heedlessness is made a ground of extenuation:
insomuch as to exempt the party Defendant from
all punishment except what may be included
in compensation?

Reasons

1 Because any greater degree of punishment would
be groundless inefficacious. You r A person by
accident has hurt you: but by the supposition
he did not intend to hurt you: by the supposition
he was not so much as conscious of his being
in danger of hurting you: he therefore was
not conscious that he was of his being in any
such case in which punishment attaches
upon a man: he has no punishment ins
before his eyes: whatever punishment therefore
really over hung him could not have any
effect upon his conduct: in other words it
could not but be inefficacious.
2. Being inefficacious, it would be of course
unprofitable; since it would occasion mischief
without preventing any.

Identifier: | JB/071/014/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field	of extenuations - reasons
Image	001	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 emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23417
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