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Indirect Legislation

Satisfying

-our but might be certain of obtaining adequate
redress.

In the work above referred to, care is accordingly
taken on the one hand not to omitt to bring to account all injuries
by which according to european the present prevailing modes of thinking
[in Europe,] a man's honour is affected: on the
other hand to provide administer to them with that sort of
satisfaction which alone they can receive. can effect a cure;

In this point too, the French law, ever
more stands distinguished above every other I
have met with: presence-banishment as above
described, presence-banishment that most beautiful of punishment,
[if such a subject can admitt of such
an epithet] seems hitherto peculiar to that law.

The English law is here again eminently
defective. The It knows not of any such thing as
honour. It has no notion of estimating a corporal
insult but by the severity of the wound bruise or the dimensions
of the wound: it has no idea of any other
harm there can be in loss of reputation but loss
of money or what may be had is to be had for money. Money
too it looks upon as a salve for every sore. It has nothing to give him
but money which he scorns.
It has
no idea of any other reparation than what consists
in money: it has no idea that a man who
has not had money given him, has any thing: or
that a an injured man who has had money given him
can
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Identifier: | JB/087/071/002
"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

071

Info in main headings field

indirect

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f13 / f14 / f15 / f16

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27596

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