JB/087/069/002

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indirect Legislation

Satisfying

It is evident enough that the better the provision
is that is made for affording to the injured
protection and redress, the weaker the motives
that urge him to attempt procuring it for himself.
Were every pain that a man is exposed
to suffer by the conduct of another come to be
follow'd at the instant by a pleasure more than
equivalent in his eyes, and which has been was to have the same conduct for all cases no such appetite as the
irascible would exist. The supposition is evidently
an exaggerated one. But exaggerated
as it is there is truth enough in it to shew, that
every improvement that can be made in this
branch of the administration of justice tends necessarily
to diminish the force of the vindictive
appetite, and to divert the current of the [and to check the enormities of that
branch of the irascible.]

Mr Hume has observed, speaking of the cruel
barbarous periods of our English history that the great difficulty
was to get the party injured to accept of
satisfaction: and that the laws by which satisfaction
was provided had for their as much in view
the setting bounds to his resentment, as the providing
a gratification for it.

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Identifier: | JB/087/069/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	069	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	002	Titles	expedients for satisfying the desires of the irascible appetite
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27594
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