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1 Compensation Axioms

1. A burthen lies the lighter, the more it is divided.

2. A An unexpected loss to any amount produces more pain,
than an unexpected gain to the same amount does pleasure.

3. A burthen to a given amount is to be presumed
to lie equally heavy on two persons, where no difference
in their circumstances can be is taken into the account. can be assigned.

4. The circumstances which The circumstances that make a loss <add>heavier [or a gain] more delightful to a person are 1st</add> Constitutional sensibility,
present demand and intensity of expectation,
and the ratio of the gain or loss to the residue
of t a man's fortune.

5. If the three other circumstances were be laid out of
the case, the real surplus of most pleasure will would be produced
upon the whole by giving adjudging the thing in dispute to
as between the parties themselves
that one of the parties whose expectations is most
intense.

6. Taking the whole community into consideration, the
most pleasure will be produced in the community
by adjudging the thing in dispute to that one
of the two parties whose expectation appears
to the community to be most intense.

7. Now to the community that one of the parties
will is he whose expectation will appear to be
most intense, of whom it appears most probable
that he is in those circumstances that situation which is acknowledges
to give title to the party who is in it in this
case in question.

8. Now this situation is always determinableed
by the simple matter of fact which is in the nature
of it notorious and susceptible of proof: as for
instance that the claimant is the eldest son of such an
one who is dead: or that the defendant made him such a

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	100	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	099	Info in main headings field	compensation axioms
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / e2 / f3 / 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	32115
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