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37. C Of Compensation.

thing it professes to do and the criminal triumphs after
all. When a case of this sort happens it presents one of
the most disheartening and afflictive prospects that
can be presented to a feeling mind. If an offender
escapes the Law upon a particular occasion, the Law
remains and may be effectual at another time; but
when the cause of impunity is a defect in the Law
itself, there is then no hope.

6. In that case it would be apt to operate in certain circumstances as a positive encouragement the offence in some cases to criminality --
But what is much worse, this circumstance not only has
a tendency not only to take off the restraint upon
guilt, but has a positive tendency to dispose the offender
to add injury to injury. This is the case more
particularly with regard to corporal injuries and unlawful
confinement. Upon the plan objected to, which is
the common one, an offender has less to fear from ill-treating
an old man than a young man, a sick man
than a man in health. If a man does you only a slight
hurt, he is in great danger of being punished overtaken by punishment

Identifier: | JB/098/041/001 "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	041	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f37 / f38 / f39 / f40
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31649
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