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BIII, C. 3 G Forfeiture of Reputation
We now come to consider the punishment of Infamy
or Forfeiture of Reputation.(a) The nature of this punishment we
have
Note.
(a)
Though Infamy is the more common, Forfeiture of Reputation is the
more commodious convenient expression of the two. Infamy is a Term which will appears
forced not commodiously apply when applied to any other than very high degrees of the punishment
in question: the phrase Forfeiture of Reputation is accomodated
to one degree as well as another: for the quantity of reputation
may be conceived to be divided into as many lots or degrees as
can be required. there can be occasion for.
The turn and structures of language having put a man's reputation
like his estate upon the footing of possessions, men have considered
and spoken of the subject as if it were a quantity alike determinate
and as if a man might be made to forfeit the whole of his
reputation at a single stroke, as he may the whole of his estate.
But that this, though possible in the latter instance, is impossible in
the former will presently be seen by tracing up these fictitious objects
of possession to the real objects from whence they are respectively
derived. A man's estate is derived out of things: out of certain determinate
allotments of things moveable or immoveable; or if any part
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