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29. C Of Compensation.

has fallen a victim to his crimes. Here then is always a certain
quantity of punishment extinguishable upon a contingency which
depends not in any degree upon the innocence of the offender. This
quantity will always form a very considerable part of the
punishment and oftentimes the whole. Whenever this contingency
happens, injured innocence sinks unredressed and
the offender triumphs in his offence.

5. Which has worse consequences when it proceeds from the Law itelf, than if from accident.
5. When an offender is seen to escape the chastisement
of the Law, it is at any rate a mischievous example:
but it is much worse when the Law has done everything 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 effectual at another time; but when
the cause of impunity is a defect in the Law itself, there is
no hope.

6. In that case it would be apt to operate as a positive encouragement, in some cases, to criminality. —
6. But what is much worse, this circumstance not only
has a tendency to take off the restraint upon guilt, but has a positive
tendency to dispose the offender to add injury to injury. This is

Identifier: | JB/098/050/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	2-3
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	050	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f29 / f30 / f31 / f32
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	31658
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