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3) Simple Personal Injuries

Private Mischief
-ever an a necessary concomitant: and when it does
take place it constitutes a separate species of additional species of offence;
offence to which we have allotted a seperate title. We shall therefore refer the consideration of
it to that title. In that case the offence would not
be what we are here suppose it to be, a simple personal
injury: it would be a complex offence consisting
of a simple personal injury and disablement
together.

The destinctions here made are
It is with a view to punishment that the
prefer to bring to note the above distinction.

These portions of organical pain,are all of them to be
considered 1st with regard to their duration intensity. 2d with
regard to their duration. In regard to both of these
points the scale of variation is very great: in regard to the first of them inconceivably so On
the side of increase the limit aspect only limit if it is
death. Happily such is the constitution of human
nature that the mischief when it has attained to a certain
Length by producing death brings along with it its own cure.

As to the pain of privation, when it takes place the
only measure of it is the amount of the sum of which
the party injured is obliged to deprive himself for the
purpose mentioned: I mean the ratio of that sum to
the amount of his whole fortune. Where he in the instance of a man who does not
work: in the instance of a working man, of his whole
fortune added to a capital equal to the whole present
value of his probable earnings throughout life.

The circumstance that made it requisite to enter
into the above distinctions as are punishment: whether applied
to the simple purpose of prevention, or to the further
one of ]and compensation]

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Identifier: | JB/072/116/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	116	Info in main headings field	simple personal injuries / offences respecting the persons of individuals
Image	003	Titles	private mischief / public mischief
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / e2 / e3 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23733
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