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Forfeiture of Reputation

a man to observe it, by his ommitting to annex any other
penalty he is naturally understood to be a kind of notice tacit
warning
to the community at large to take the punishment of the offence execution of
the law
into their own hands. All he does
in such case is to give direction to the moral sanction, trusting
to its native for the execution of his Laws.

6 3. By Exhortation

3. If the ordinance be accompanied by an express exhortation
to obey it, or, what comes to much the same thing,
if the terms in which it is delivered savour of exhortation,
this is another and more express declaration of his persuasion
of the utility expedience of the ordinance he promulgates. And the
more anxious he is that it should meet with obedience
the more pernicious [he it shews] he [appears to deem
the conduct
of any one who disobeys it, or at least the more
convinced he shews himself to be, that to a certain degree
at least the non-observance of it would be pernicious to
the

Q 225

Note.

(a) This anxiety may be proportioned not solely to the grounded or excited not solely by a supposed utility of the
Law but in some degree by a supposed propensity in the people to disobey it


Identifier: | JB/141/104/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

6-7

Box

141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

104

Info in main headings field

forfeiture of reputation

Image

001

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6

Penner

Watermarks

myears

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline fox

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

48321

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