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10
Indirect Legislation § 10
Mischief
satisfaction is a matter one of the objects of direct an object a matter which may be compleatly
legislation provided for in the ordinary way of direct
legislation, and which seems neither to requires the
nor to admitt the assistance of any indirect
expedients. The offender has diminished the stock
of reputation possessed by the party injured: let
compensation be another measure of reputation be
given him to the latter at the expence of the former: Most
commonly the this may be done by holding up
the one in an honourable point of view, and
covering marking the other with disgrace. The offender,
by diminishing the reputation of the party injured
has p most probably augmented the ratio of his
own reputation to that of his antagonist:
This
must be This is the case of course, unless it be in there be any
these offences a of in the number of those that
the offences which concern reputation there be
any which diminish the reputation of the offender
as much as that of the object of the offence. party injured: which
if it be were the case with any offences would
be with those which originate in venereal desire:
I mean, seduction, rape, and so forth. In these
offences
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