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Forfeiture of Reputation.
temporary or perpetual, the infamy itself may be distinguished
into temporary and perpetual indelible. Thus the infamy
produced by the Stocks, the Pillory and the Carcase Carcase is but
temporary; that which is produced by an indelible stigma
is perpetual. Not but that any ind of infamy howsoever
inflicted or contracted may chance to prove perpetual;
since the idea of the offence or, what comes to
the same thing, of the punishment may very well
chance to remain more or less fresh in men's minds to
the end of the delinquent's Life: but when it is produced
by an indelible stigma it cannot do otherwise than continue
so long as the mark remains whatever happens to him. Wheresoever he goes,
and how long soever he lives, whatsoever happens to him
he bears about him the evidence of his guilt.
Mutilation and the severer kinds of simple afflictive
punishments, Discolourment, Disfigurement and
Disablement are all attended likewise with a very intense
degree of infamy; that is in as far as the effects produced
by
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