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Indirect Legislation

Mischief

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Lucrative compensation
may
be administer'd
in the way of
indirect legislation

It is only the lucrative species of compensation
that either requires or admitts the assistance of
indirect legislation towards the supplying of it.
This is a sort of satisfaction equally applicable
to every kind of private injury. It is even applicable
to injuries done to the an large indefinite class
of persons or even to the whole community,
in as far as the case where [it was] [the] property [of [the public]] such party [that]
was the subject of the offence.

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This can not
be done without
expence.

Now in the business of providing a lucrative
compensation there is one consideration that strikes
us at the first entrance. This sort of compensation
[in which it is also resembled by the other] and the other sort stands upon the same footing
can not any more than punishment, be provided
without expence: if it could, that which there would is
gi be no bounds to the demand for it: for compensation
being in the essence of it something
desirable good, whatever is given to a man in compensation,
should likewise equally be given to him although he had
received no damage: for good, as often as it can
be done without a more than an equivalent
expence ought to be done to every man. But
the


















Identifier: | JB/087/129/004
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

9-13

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

129

Info in main headings field

indirect legislation

Image

004

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f9 / f10 / f11 / f12

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

c. hamilton

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27654

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