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23.
C
Forfeiture of Reputation.
To this head also must be referred the punishment
of Forfeiture of Rank, otherwise intitled Degradation. For the
purpose of understanding this modification of ignominious
punishment, reputation must be distinguished into natural
or ordinary and political factitious or extraordinary. By natural
share of reputation and good will I mean that
which each man possesses in virtue of his own personal
conduct and behaviour: By political factitious I mean that extraordinary
share of these possessions which independently of
a man's personal conduct is bestowed on him by the
institution and contrivance of the political magistrate.
This kind of factitious reputation [or consideration]
is commonly annext to office or employment: but it sometimes
Note.
consent: to Rape and other irregularities of the venereal appetite.
This however seems to proceed not so much from design
as from in attention in the Authors of our Common Law;
and is one of the many absurd and mischievous consequences that follow
from the lumping together offences of the most heterogeneous natures under
the name of Felonies.
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