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Of Punishments belonging to the Moral Sanction.

magistrate himself may have thought it expedient to recur
to. However flagrantly immoral [obnoxious] may have been the conduct of a delinquent,
persons at large are never permitted, of their own
authority, to punish him by beating or maiming or putting
him to death. Positive ill offices may be divided into such
as display themselves in discourse speech. Now it is to speech that the
latitude which is still left to the right of rendering positive
ill offices in a direct way is principally confined (a)
and even this right is commonly subject to a number
of limitations. But ill offices which are confined to speech
are not, if they stop there, productive of any evil. When they
are, it is ultimately by disposing other persons to entertain a

Note.
(a)
I am conscious that the distinction here stated between
the direct and indirect way of rendering ill offices is far
enough from being explicit; but there would be no way
of making it so without dispatching a large and intricate
title of the doctrine of offences.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	7
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	of punishments belonging to the moral sanction
Image	004	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
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 2 pieces	ID Number	48315
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