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15.
B.1. Ch.6.
cannot it is true be remitted, but he may
be freed from as much of it as is yet to come.
There is however little chance of there being any yet
to come, unless it be so much as consists of
chronical punishment, such as imprisonment,
banishment, penal labour, and the like.
So much as consists in acute punishment as whipping where the penal process itself is over presently,
however permanent the punishment
may be in its effects, may be considered as
irremissible. This is the case for example
with whipping, branding, mutilation and
capital punishment. The most perfectly
irremissible of any is capital punishment.
In all other cases Means of Compensation
may be found for the sufferings of the
unfortunate victim, but not in this.
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