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32. C Of Compensation
descends upon his Representatives.
Reasons.
1. Not to receive it would be a hardship.
1. Not to receive compensation would be a hardship, a
disappointment, not only to the party damnified, but even to his
Representatives. This has been already shown.
2. To pay it will be none to representatives.
2. To yield compensation will not be a hardship, it will
not be a disappointment to the representatives of the party damnifying.
Whatever expectation he can have entertained of being
benefited in point of fortune upon the decease of his predecessor,
is far enough from being determinate. It can regard the
indeterminate surplus only of his fortune; to wit so much as
may remain of it, after the deduction of whatever charges
may have been brought upon it by his misfortunes, his follies
or his crimes.
More particularly with regard to the charge brought upon
the estate by the damage in question, such a deduction is no
more than what the eventual representative will naturally
have been led to make in his own mind immediately upon
its coming to his knowledge. It would never have been regarded
by him therefore as a loss; nor could the view of it have ever
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