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Indirect Legislation § 10
Mischief
throwing it on a
party who is content
to bear it.
3. reducing it into
impalpable parcels
by throwing
it on the public
-swer
as far as it goes
the purpose of punishment: or thrown cast upon
a person who is prepared to bear it, as in
the case of private insurances: or broke down
into parcels too small to be felt, as where
it is thrown upon the public.
The most Of these several funds the most
obvious and most eligible, where it is sufficient
is evidently the estate of the offender. The
Whatever it be proper to take from him as in the way of punishment, for
the sake of the suffering which such defalcation
is the means of his undergoing, may be given
to the party injured without any [new] offense
expence incurred on purpose. Thus far belongs
to the head of direct and ordinary legislation.
But the misfortune is that in the case
of the most mischievous offences a great part
In the case of private insurance, the advantage
results from this circumstance
of the instances of delinquency which occur, this
fund is empty; so that in these cases it is necessary
to look out for another.
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