JB/098/048/004

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24. C Of Compensation

Why the Right of receiving Compensation
is made extinguishable by Lapse of Time.
Reasons

1. After a certain time, not to receive it is no hardship. --
1. Because the forbearance of the party damnified for such a
length of time shews, that either he never had a wish to receive compensation,
or that if he ever had one, that wish is at an end: in
either of which cases the taking away his right would be no hardship
to him.

2. To pay it, is
2. Because the author of the damage will by the above considerations
be led to conclude that the party damnified means not
to prosecute his right. He will accordingly no longer be prepared
for the event of suffering that inconvenience. If then, contrary to
his expectation it should befall him, the weight of it will fall
on him with double force.

3. Apprehension of Punishment should have an end.
3. Because it may be fit, in regard to small offences, that
the anxiety a man is under at the apprehension of the above inconvenience
should at some period or other be made to cease; especially
since the suffering it produces, being secret and concealed from the

Identifier: | JB/098/048/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31656
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