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In all these five Cases the Law is simply and
absolutely inexpedient — there ought to be no Law
at all upon the Subject.matter.

6.th Where the Act prohibited is such as does produce
Unhappiness in the Community but the Punishment,
tho' it's Infliction were certain, is insufficient,
the Miserypain of it being less than the profit of the
Crime.

Here also the Law is inexpedient — The
Misery of the Crime remaining undiminished,
receives by way ofin Addition to it the Misery of the
Punishment; and the Law is the more inexpedient,
by how much less the Misery of the second falls
short of the Misery of the first, so that it does
not equal it.

As if there were a Law, that he who robs on
the Highway shall be paidfined one third of what he
takes — The Traveller would suffer just as much
with this Law as without it: the Robber, if convicted,
would have nothing to do but to pay his third and
go off quietly with the Remainder.

Examples of real Laws, in the Degree of
their Improvidence, similar in the Kind, and not much,

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	legislation
Folio number	100	Info in main headings field	introd. a law - 8 cases in respect of its expediency
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f10 / / /
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	31104
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