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17.
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Forfeiture of Reputation.
by them are known to be produced on purpose in the way of punishment. But
with regard to many of the sorts of punishment that come under the three latter heads, as the effects of them
are upon the face of them, no other than might have been
produced by a calamity accident, they are therefore the less certain
of producing the effect of infamy. The infamy produced
by these punishments is in point of duration of a mixed
kind nature as it were between temporary and perpetual.
At the time of the execution it stands upon a par in
this respect with the pillory or the stocks, with whipping
or any other kind of simple afflictive punishments: after
that time it has a greater effect than it is greater than what is produced by any of these punishments
because the visible consequences still continue
it is not however so great as what is produced by stigmatization,
because it does not of itself, like that galling
punishment, [shew itself at first a glance] make known
the guilt of the delinquent to strangers at the first glance.
Nearly allied to corporal infamy ignominy are two other species
of infamy which as they derive their influence altogether
from
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