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Imprisonment – Fees

Another way in which a man is often made to
suffer on the occasion of Imprisonment is the being
made to pay money under the name of Fees. This
hardship on the very first inspection, when coupled
with Imprisonment deduced as a consequence from
a sentence or warrant of Imprisonment, can be
classed under no other title than that of an abuse:
for naturally it has just as much to do with Imprisonment
as hanging has.

This abuse is coeval with the first barbarous rudiments
of our antient Jurisprudence; when the Magistrate
had little more idea a public interest of the ends of Justice than the
Freebooter; and the evils he inflicted were little more
than a compensation for the evils he repressed. In
those times of universal depravity, when the Magistrate
reaped almost as much profit from the plunder of
the those who were or were pretended to be guilty as from the contributions of the those who were acknowledged innocent,
no pretext was too shallow to cover the enterprizes
of rapacity under the mask of justice. A quibbling
and inhuman sarcasm seems to have been

The abuse was I under consideration seems to All the colour which this abuse is capable
has taken a colour of receiving seems to have been taken from a quibbling and inhuman
sarcasm. "Since you have lodging found you, says
the Gaoler to the Prisoner, it is fit it is fit you ought it is fit like other Lodgers you should
to be made to you should pay for it pay for it. Fit it certainly would be
if the Lodger came there voluntarily: the only circumstance

Identifier: | JB/141/063/001 "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	063	Info in main headings field	imprisonment - fees
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / e2 / e3 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::ac propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	folio now in 2 pieces	ID Number	48280
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