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Of the Grounds of exemption from punishment

⊞ ⊞ To Ins. p.3. We come now to consider the several cases
in which Punishment is or has been supposed
to be improper.

Punishment is what? An evil inflicted for
something that has been, or at least is supposed to have
been done.[a] This something must have been prohibited
or at least supposed to have been prohibited
by at least the Letter of some Law.[b]

But it may happen 1st that the act which has
been supposed to be done, that is which according
to the regular and established ordinary modes of trial has
been proved to have been done, was after all not
done. A circumstance has come out which has
indicated the proposition conclusion drawn from the
ordinary methods of investigation to have been erroneous.

2. The act which stands prohibited by the letter
of the Law may not have been meant to be
prohibited by the Legislator. For the faculties of
comprehension and expression being in all men
more or less imperfect, it will often happen that
the Legislator did not mean, what to judge from
the words of the particular passage relating to the act
in question, he would seem to mean.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	097	Info in main headings field	grounds of exemption from punishment
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	32113
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