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Of Co-offenders

artificial is to be understood any sort of profit which any
person who shares in the natural profit may allow
to co-offenders for the sake of procuring their assistance.

56.

The natural profit may be 1. common: 2. communicable: or 3. incommunicable
It is evident As to the natural profit, it is evident
that it must vary with the nature of the offence:
but artificial profit may be the same in one case
as in another: for in each case it may be any sort
of profit whatsoever.

The natural profit may either be 1. common
in it's nature to a number of co-offenders:
2: not actually common, but communicable: 3. neither common
nor communicable: and in any case it may either be a
self-regarding profit, or a profit by sympathy.

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Which of those denominations it belongs to it can be judged of only upon an average estimate.
In enquiring out the natural profit respectively
belonging to each offence, we must be content with ascertaining to view
that which belongs the matter in a general
way, taking that for the natural profit of each offence
which is apt to be so in most instances: for by accident
there is scarce any sort of profit which may not be derived
from every sort of offence. We must be content
therefore with what may be termed the ordinary natural
profit: which is that which the offence upon an average of the

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Identifier: | JB/098/031/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	54-58, 61-63
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	031	Info in main headings field	of co-offenders
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f39 / f40 / f41 / f42
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[monogram] propatria [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31639
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