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6 C Of Compensation.
nature, there is more certainty that the loss of a certain sum
will outweigh it than where it is of any other nature;
for instance of the malevolent or vindictive kind: so that this
case affords the greatest certainty of making compensation
answer not its own purpose only, but that of punishments.
In the succeeding cases it will appear that the weight
of these reasons receives a diminution at every step.
2.
What acts are most apt to he attended with a pecuniary loss.
Now there are no acts affecting individuals that
may not, by their remote consequences, occasion a pecuniary
or quasi-pecuniary loss: acts affecting a man's person,
acts affecting his property, acts affecting his reputation, acts
affecting his condition or station in life, may all be attended
with this effect.+ + See postea But those which are called offences against
property are essentially attended with this effect;
the others only by accident.
3.
What with a pecuniary profit.
So also there are no such acts from which the author
of the damage may not reap a pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary profit:
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