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Indirect Legislation

Mischief

who has been beaten or vilified defamed or plunder'd has
compleat amends made him, the act of beating,
vilif defaming or plundering, becomes, so far at least
as his interests only are concerned, a matter of indifference.
Even murder and incendiarism would become
innocent matters of indifference, could men be raised from the
dead, and if it could it be so contrived that fire should
not be productive of any mischief. [Now] it is not
indeed in the legislator's power to raise men from the dead:
but it may be in his power to give make some
sort of amends to such living persons persons still
living as have been sufferers by their death. It is
not in the po legislator's power to prevent fire from
doing mischief: but the mischief which fire in
any case happens to be productive of it is in his
power to lessen in s by some one or other
of the methods
we shall proceed to
exhibited.
to wit by sharing it: and hence
the by causing the loss to fall upon those who are
more able in preference to instead of those who
are more less able to endure it: and hence the
usefulness of offices of insurance.

Mischief, of what nature so ever it be, and
from what cause soever it arise is must either be pecuniary
or not pecuniary. In the first case it is always
susceptible of an amends of the same kind as the suffering,
or as it may termed, of amends that is ho-
-mogeneous.

Identifier: | JB/087/132/003 "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	132	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27657
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