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36. C Of Compensation.
the account of Compensation were in case of the party's death
to be exacted on the account of punishment. But in
practice this is perhaps no where hitherto the case: in many cases if
a Sum so due be not exacted on the account of compensation,
it is not exacted at all: so much of the punishment
sinks altogether. The guilty person is pro
tanto appointed successor to the innocent party who
has fallen a victim to his crimes. Here then is always
a certain quantity of punishment extinguishable upon a contingency
which depends not in any degree upon the innocence
of the offender. This quantity will be always form a very
considerable part of the punishment and will often-
-times form the whole. Whenever this contingency happens,
injured innocence sinks without redress, falls unaddressed, and the offender
triumphs in his guilt. offence.
5. Which has worse consequences when it proceeds from a defect the Law itself, than if from accident.
5. When an offender owing to some accidental circumstance, is seen to escape the chastisement
of the Law, it is at any rate a mischievous example:
but it is much worse when the Law has done every thing
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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