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3
B.1. Ch.1
Definitions

II.

In the three preceding cases, the intention to
the producetion of the evil is direct: in the following
cases it is indirect: the evil infli is not the end ultimate object
but it is the means.

If the mischief injury injury that you do me has for its object
the be warding off some early mischief that restraining me from doing certain acts from which you apprehend
to be impending over you this acts if mischief to yourself it is an act of
self preservation prevention.

If the object of the pain to be to induce me to
do any act which I should not have done
it is an act of coercian or constraint.

If i a To Expose a man to acute organical suffering
the application of which is to cease when the desired
service is performed: for example when you he has
the information that it is presumed is in his power
to afford, it is an act of torture.

If the mischief that you do me done to you has for its object the warding
off any injury that I apprehend to be impending over
me from some act on your part that you are performing or meditating to perform are about to perform
it is an act of Self-preservation.

If it be done to ward off the mischief to be done to
you with a view of warding off some injury that upi are then in the very act of performing, or meditating to
perform, it is an act of Self defence.

When a burthen is imposed on one party, for the
purpose of making amends to some other party for the
pains he has suffered, it is an act of compensation or
reparation.

Thus the same act, the same evil, according to
the nature of the intention and of the motive on the part of
the agent, bears a different denomination, and is
arrange accordingly some either among the class of pernicious
or useful acts.* * Note in the next Page.


Identifier: | JB/141/003/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

003

Info in main headings field

Image

002

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f8 / f3

Penner

richard smith

Watermarks

dusautoy & rump 1809

Marginals

Paper Producer

edward collins

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1809

Notes public

ID Number

48220

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