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6. C Of Compensation
motive of lucre to engage in. But the acts which are most apt to be
attended with such a profit are those which are ranked under the
division of offences against Property+; those only excepted which
+See
essentially import destruction.
4.
Cases that have the 2d. best claim to Compensation.
Another set of cases are those in which the party damnified
sustained a pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary loss, and the author
of the damage receives a profit, but which is not pecuniary or
-- damage pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary - profit not pecuniary.
quasi-pecuniary; in which case it is ordinarily of the malevolent
or vindictive kind.(a) These cases occupy the second rank among those
See p. 22, 23.
which afford a claim to compensation.
5.
Example
Cases of this sort are mostly those where the Offence is such
as essentially imports the destruction of property, circumstanced as such
offences are in common.
6.
The Cases which in the third place have the strongest Claim
Note
(a) It is hardly worth while to make a distinction in favour of the cases
where at the same time that the loss is pecuniary or quasi-pecuniary
the profit or advantage is of the benevolent kind. Such cases, however,
are possible and indeed not very infrequent, to wit, where, merely for
the pleasure of gratifying the resentment of your friend, you do
mischief to his enemy.
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