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Feby1 1809
Peines
Pardon every substitute another punishment: nullification, not
1. Thus
2. This much as to pardons: pardons granted under that the name of pardon name
granted under that name, and by the benignity of a mind
which if not precisely the mind of the king the royal wearer of the crown, is the a mind
of the beningity of which it happens to which should the course taken by its benignity be
to be discussed in improper one might, by the an exertion on
the part of the royal mind, be precluded from continuing
its operation in that course.
Let us come now to these pardons which for not baring
the that name, have not the less properly the office of pardons:
I speak of those which operate by application of the principle
and practice of nullification to the instrument in
which the conviction or judgement passed upon the offender
stands recorded.
In a case every case of this sort the relation between the official
cause and the effect - between the supposed grammatical flaw
and the liberation which is the consequence of it - aswould have in the
case just mentioned related the relation between the appropriation receipt of the<add>consequent
of the £10 note to the purpose pocket for which it was destined
and the exercise of the benignity of the crown in favour
of the friend of the individual by which this the liberality was
displayed. If it were not close enough. the two relations were yet in any instance
it happens to the two relations to be not yet close enough
nothing can be more easy thence to draw them still closer.
Instead of the product of the person by whose "advice", in the
case of the avowed pardon, "the resolutions" of the royal wearer
of the "crown, andwith its benignity,are "governed", [+] let the [+] in the case of the virtual pardon
of the liberality of the friend of the intended proposed object ofof
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jeremy bentham |
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