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such Mischief: Care ought he therefore certainly to It concerns him to
take care that in Recompence he is doing good.

This Thus much being premised it will appear that the
Merits of <add>degree </del> Question of merit or demerit in</add> a Law is susceptible of these right Cases

1st. When both the Act prohibited is such as does
not produce Unhappiness in the Community,
and the Penalty is so often inflicted as to answers the End in an ordinary
Degree of preventing it's being committed, but is
greater than is necessary for that Purpose —

This is the Maximum of Imperfection.
Such, if it be necessary to hazard Examples all
along for the Sake of fixing the Import of the Rule,
may be conceived to be in Spain & Portugal the
Laws of the Inquisition against the Maintenance
of innocent or meritorious Opinions, inflicting Death
upon Offenders with all the Varieties of Torment.

2. Where the Act prohibited is such as does not
produce Unhappiness in the Community and the
Penalty answers the End in an ordinary Degree
of preventing it, but is no greater than is necessary
for that Purpose. such

Identifier: | JB/096/099/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	099	Info in main headings field	ch…of laws in general - measure of their expediency
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f6 / f7 / f8 /
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31103
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