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12. C

Of Compensation.

arises concerning the quantum of compensation, let the turn
of the scale be in favour of the party damnified.

Reasons.

Because what he suffers, turns to no account.
If a man is made to pay rather more than he need
in the way of compensation, what he suffers thereby is not
altogether so much misery in waste; it may still be of
use in the way of punishment; to wit by adding something
to the chance which the punishment has of being
efficacious in the way of prevention. On the other hand,
if what the party endamaged receives is less than what is
necessary to make him compleat amends, what he suffers
by such deficiency is so much misery in waste; it produces
no good whatever, and as far as it is known it produces
propagates evil: to wit the additional evil of the pain which other men
will feel, at the apprehension of being exposed, upon
future occasions, to such a loss as the difference between
the compensation received and the compensation due amounted
to.

2.

2 He is to gain rather than to lose.
Accordingly where blame is imputable to the author of

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Identifier: | JB/098/034/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	9-12, 1-3, 1-2
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	034	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31642
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