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31. C Of Compensation.

3. Apprehension of punishment should have an end
3. Because it may be fit, in regard to small offences that the anxiety
a man is under at the apprehension of the above inconvenience
should at some period or other be made to cease; especially
since the suffering it produces, being secret and concealed from
the eyes of man, has in comparison but little efficacy in the
way of punishment example.

4. Danger of groundless suits.
4. Because of the door it might open to malicious or other
groundless suits, if parties pretending to have been damnified
were permitted to sue at a time when witnesses might
be dead or absent out of knowledge, and when the memory
of such circumstances as might serve for exculpation might
naturally be obliterated.

Circumstances which save Compensation from being extinguished.
In the following cases no length of time shall extinguish
the right of receiving compensation.

1. Ignorance
1. If it appears that the party damnified knew not of the
offence soon enough to prosecute within the time; in such case
such further time shall be allowed him as to the Judge
shall appear reasonable, not exceeding the time allowed by the Law. 2. If

Identifier: | JB/098/039/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	039	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	003	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31647
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