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C 1.
Of Exemptions from Punishment.
1.
Exemption, what By Exemption is meant Exemption from Punishment:
2.
"Exemption" for "ground of Exemption".
The term Exemption is herein after employed instead of
saying "ground of Exemption."
3.
A Ground of Exemption, what
A ground of exemption is any circumstance, + + which being applied to an offence, exempts or takes it out of the case in which it is punishable the existence
of which when applied to any act in question renders the
case such, in which (though the act be mischievous) the punishment
which would otherwise be competent is not to be inflicted
on the offender.
4.
Refer them to Procedure Setting forth an Exemption, what
Setting forth an exemption is shewing the existence
of a ground of exemption in the case in question.
5.
Exemption, total, partial.
In point of quantity, an offender may be exempted
either from the whole of the punishment which otherwise would
be competent to him, or only from a part. Exemption may accordingly
be either total or partial.
6.
Change may amount to a partial Exemption.
The substitution of a punishment of a given kind in the
room of a punishment of another kind, may amount to a partial
exemption, if the kind of punishment that is substituted
be less severe than the kind of punishment in the room of
which it is substituted. 7. Ex:
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