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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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