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Punishment analysed

Possession derived from persons consist in the services
rendered by those persons. Services may be distinguished into
exigible and inexigible. By exigible I mean such as a man
may be punished (to wit by the political sanction) for not rendering;
by inexigible, such as a an cannot be punished for
not rendering; or if at all, not by any other sanction than either
the moral or the religious.(a) The faculty of procuring such as
are exigible is commonly called Power, to wit Power over Persons:
the faculty of or chance of procuring such as are inexigible
depends in great measure upon Reputation; hence result
two farther kinds of Forfeiture: Forfeiture of Power and Forfeiture
of Reputation.(b)
Reputation

Note.

(a) To services inexigible but by the force of these auxiliary
sanctions, correspond what are called imperfect rights. Whatever
right a man may have to a service which the party is not punishable
by law for not rendering him is what is called by writers on the
pretended Law of Nature,+ an imperfect right; and the obligation to
render any such service, an imperfect obligation.

(b) Of Services that are altogether inexigible, such as are Strictly
spontaneous gratuitous depend altogether upon goodwill: upon the goodwill of
the


Identifier: | JB/141/093/003
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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

093

Info in main headings field

punishment analysed

Image

003

Titles

note

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f3 / f4 / f5 / f6

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline fox

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

folio now in two pieces

ID Number

48310

Box Contents

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