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C Simple Of Excused Corporal Injuries
course of a quarrel grounded on your own private
interests.
[(C) Legal] A legal injury or offence is any one that
is punishable by Law. See the Table of Offences.
[(D) Moral] A moral injury is any act which whether
punishable or not by Law, yet as being prejudicial
to the party injured is apt to be punished by the Censure
of the world: for instance an Act of insolence,
treachery or ingratitude.
Main Text.
The excuse extenuation afforded by provocation is the more
forcible in proportion to the following circumstances,
viz;
1. The grievousness (A) of the injury.
2. The recency (B) of it.
3. The difficulty which the party provoked may
have found himself under of getting redress by Law.
Exposition.
[(A)) Grievousness] The grievousness of the injury is to be
estimated in this occasion not merely from the mischievousness of such an offence
to the Society in general, but rather from the tendency
of
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