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5 C Of Co-Offenders
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person intended to be suborned shall win: in case
it shall not happen, he shall lose.
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It is evident therefore that a an even wager
-- which is more
than as strong again
as that created by
hiring a reward.
operates with at least twice (a) the force of a reward or hire to the
amount of the sum to be gained by him
who wins the wager.
NOTE
[(a) Twice] In fact it operates with more than twice that force: since it
is worse for a man to lose a given sum than simply not to gain it.
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It is evident also that every wager so laid
Every wager connecting
gain with
an obnoxious
event is
subornation: to wit
either culpable or
criminal
is on the part of one of the persons concerned an
act of subornation: heedless, and therefore culpable,
if he was not aware of the tendency it has to produce
the obnoxious event: advised and therefore criminal
if he was aware of such a tendency. To p. 13. No 2
Among co-offenders that those are principal
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Principal offenders,
who
offenders to on whom the natural profit of
the offence operates efficaisously in the character of a self-regarding motive
efficaisously disposing them to take the part
they eventually take in toward the production of the obnoxious
event.
In the case of different crimes this natural
profit is of a different nature and may
fall to persons of different descriptions: the appellation
of principal offenders will accordingly fall to
persons of different descriptions.
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