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the effect of the poison should be to produce
sleep, the punishment may not be sufficiently
exemplary. If it produce convulsions and
distortions it may prove hateful.

If the poison administered by the
criminal has not proved fatal, he may
be made to take an antidote before the
penal poison has ope produced death. The
Dose and the time may be fixed by the
Judges according to the report of skilful physictans
physicians.

The horror attached to this crime,
would most probably render this punishment
popular. And if there is one country in
which this crime is more common than others
it is there that this punishment which presents possesses
this so striking an analogy with the crime would be most
suitable.

II.
Second Source of Analogy
For a Corporal Injury a Similar Corporal Injury –

"An Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth." In crimes producing irreparable bodily
injuries the part of the Body injured may will afford
the characteristic circumstance. The analogy will
consist in inflicting upon making the offender suffer an evil
similar to that which he has perpetrated inflicgtedmaliciously
& wilfully inflicted.

It will however, be necessary to provide
for two cases, – those that in which the offender


Identifier: | JB/141/036/001
"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

036

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

ii second source of analogy

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6

Penner

richard smith

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

48253

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