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considered is expedient, but inexpedient relatively
to that Law which may have a lighter penalty.
The greater Number of subsisting Regulations
concerning the higher Offences will be perhaps be found to come under this Case.
8. When the Act is such as would does produce Unhappiness
in the Community, and less than
does the Penalty: which Penalty, so as to be
sufficient to answer the End in an ordinary
Degree of preventing it, is also the least that
can be assigned
Such I conceive to be the Law giving Damages for Battery.
This, as far as depends upon the Choice of
the Act prohibited, and the Degree of the penalty," is
the Maximum of Perfection.
The same is to be observed mutatis mutandis
concerning a mandatory Law.
As the Result of our Inquiries brings
us to conclude in Approbation or Disapprobation of
any Law, as far as it concerns it's Substance, it will
bring us to refer it to some one or other of these Cases: Nor can
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