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Reward

§ 3 Cases unmeet

birth to in one of any one of of those cases as
well as in another. The tendency therefore of a
wager thus laid is to operate as a reward:
and that in a case in which reward has the
pernicious tendency of a reward of this sort
it have this be the only effect which it has
a tendency to produce, must be pernicious.

29Whether the tendency
of a reward thus
applied shall be
pernicious upon
the whole or otherwise
depends on
the circumstances
of the case

But in the first place such in particular cases may be the probably
force of the restraining motives that the probable
force of such an impelling motive may be
looked upon as next to nothing: as if a man
being next in succession to an estate of a thousand
a year after the death of his father,
were to accept a wager of ten pound, that his father did
not die within a certain term. In the next
place, such may be in many cases may be
the advantage of allowing men in this artificial voluntary
way to annex an artificial emolument to events in
themselves calamitous, as to make it worth while
to run the risque there may be that such a provision
may give birth to the intentional endeavours
of producing such calamity: as in the
case of insurances against fire, annuities made
determinable upon lives, and so forth. On this account,
to lay it down as an universal inflexible rule,
that no emolument shall be provided held up to view in cases in
which

Identifier: | JB/087/149/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	28-29
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	149	Info in main headings field	reward
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f37 / f38 / f39 / f40
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27674
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