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Imprisonment. – Fees

measure of oppression, it is inflicted on them because
they have been proved innocent Prisoners after they
have been acquitted, are as if to excite make them amends
for the unmerited sufferings they have undergone, loaded with
a heavy fine professedly on the very ground of their having
been acquitted. In some Gaols of persons acquitted of Murder
are a a sum of money is exacted under the name
of an acquittal far greater than equal to what it costs an ordinary
working man may be to maintain himself
for a quarter of a year: a sum greater than such as may not one man
as mans men in ten of that class, that is of the class
which includes the a great majority of the whole
people, an is ever master of during the whole course
of his whole life.

But this is only one among too many instances in
our Law in which public charges instead of being levied
upon affluence are laid upon distress. The taxes upon Law
Proceedings, levied as they are upon both parties, before it
is known which is the oppressed and which is the oppressor
falls under the same censure.


Identifier: | JB/141/063/004
"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

004

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

Box Contents

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