JB/072/073/004

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20 C Offences against Justice

1. will serve to divide acts of corruption into so many
species: of which bribery and time-serving are but
two examples out of many.

2 From p. 17 at bottom
NOTE continued

punishment is too great, it may be conceived as divided
into two portions: in respect of that which
is properly suited to the offence; and that by which
the whole punishment exceeds the proper quantity.
T This first portion then is properly applied
to the offence: but the remainder stands by itself
and has no offence to be applied to. In respect
of this first portion then a person who is not an
offender is treated as if he were. The converse
may be observed of the case where the punishment
is too little: a person who is an offender
is pro tanto treated as if he were not so. In
the case where the punishment applied is
wrong in kind, both the above defects are united:
a person who with respect to the punishment
inflicted is not an offender is punished as
if he were: and the same person being who in respect
of another punishment is an offender, is in
respect of that punishment not punished. Not that
by this double defect the mischief is doubled: on the
contrary the one failure lessens pro tanto the mischief of the
other.

Identifier: | JB/072/073/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7, 9
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field	division of offences against justice
Image	004	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23690
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