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C 41
Of Co-offenders
the instances in which it is committed is most likely
to produce.
58.
In what offences it is common —
Under this restriction it may be observed that the
natural profit is naturally common to all the offenders
where the natural motive is the dissocial pleasure of ill-will, or To p.6. No 2.
From p. 7. No at bottom.
61
By sympathy or antipathy the profit of any offence may be common.
It is to be observed that by sympathy or
antipathy the natural profit of any offence whatever
may be common. Without any other a self-regarding
profit a man may find a motive for engaging in any
sort of offence whereby his friend may be benefitted, or his
enemy made to suffer.
62
The term principal had better be discarded.
The conclusion is, that the term ambiguous
principal offender being so ambiguous, it seems better
to exclude it altogether; and instead in the room of it
to make use of some one or other of the names above
proposed for the several sorts of offenders according to the
several concerns ways in which they are respectively concerned
in the offence.
63
How it had best be employ'd, if at all.
If it were necessary on any account
it were necessary to employ the term, it, it would need to be applied the best way of applying it would
be it should to The term sometimes in some cases to one of
the 5 sorts of co-offenders above distinguished, + + See § 54 sometimes in other cases to
another: which would appear satisfactorily enough, were it
worth while to descend any deeper into such discussions.
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