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Punishment analysed.
of a future life over and above such chance of enjoying the
same pleasures as appears to be conferred by the condition or
privilege of being an ordinary professor of the same religion.
By way of As an appendix to the above list of possessions [and of
the forfeitures of which those possessions may respectively be
the subjects] may be added two particular kinds of possessions
constituted by the circumstance of contingency as applied in
different ways to each one in that list. These are the legal capacity
of acquiring as applied to those articles respectively; and the
protection of the law whereby a man is secured against the chance
of losing them if acquired. These abstract kinds of possessions form
the subject of so many kinds of Forfeiture: Forfeiture of legal capacity
and Forfeiture of the protection of the Law: Forfeiture of
legal capacity with respect to any possession taking away from
a man, whatever chance he might have of acquiring it: Forfeiture
of protection subjecting him to a particular chance of
losing it.
Note.
(a) Forfeiture of protection may be considered also in another point of
view, as being the forfeiture of the services of such ministers of Justice whose Office
it is to protect a man afford a man protection in the enjoyment of the possession in question.
Identifier: | JB/141/094/008 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
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rationale of punishment |
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094 |
punishment analysed |
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008 |
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copy/fair copy sheet |
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recto |
f7 / f8 / f9 / f10 |
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[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]] |
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caroline fox |
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folio now in two pieces |
48311 |
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