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5. C Of Compensation

before, will in this case be more certain of producing that effect than
in any other.

2. -- The profit of being overbalanced.
2. Where the profit of the offence is of a pecuniary nature,
there is more certainty that the loss of a certain sum will outweigh
it than where it is of any other nature; for instance of the malevolent
or vindictive kind; so that this case affords the greatest certainty
of making compensation answer not its own purpose only,
but that of punishment.

In the succeeding cases it will appear that the weight of
these reasons receives a diminution at every step.

2.
What acts are most apt to be attended with a pecuniary loss.
Now there are no acts respecting individuals that may not
by their remote consequences, occasion a pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary
loss: acts affecting a man's person, acts affecting his property,
acts affecting his reputation, acts affecting his condition or station
in life, may all be attended with this effect.+ But those which
+See postea.
are called offences against property are essentially attended with
this effect; the others only by accident.

3.
What with a pecuniary profit
So also there are no such acts from which the author of the
damage may not reap a pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary profit: for
there are none which a man may not be induced for hire, that is by the motive

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2-12, 1
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	044	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31652
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