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39. C Of Compensation.
petty mischief and holding out a reward for greater,
the Law goes as far as it can go in such a way
towards frustrating its own purposes, and turning
a little villain into a great one.
Let compensation to the Heir be ample
2.
In giving Compensation to a man's family <add>family representatives</add> for injuries
affecting the his life [or fortune] of their deceased principal, his ancestor let every
the remotest prospect of advantage which by the his
death they of the ancestor his family are deprived of
be taken into account.
Reasons.
That the Heir may gain more by prosecuting than conniving.
Besides the Reasons already given why in a
general View Compensation should descend to representatives,
there is this use in making it as ample as
possible in the present case, viz: to prevent as much as possible its being
in the power of the offender to buy off the representative,
and so as to make it his interest by abandoning the
prosecution to exempt the offender from the so much remainder of
Identifier: | JB/098/041/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
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