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Forfeiture of Reputation.

on the part of the Magistrate, that the delinquent be no longer considered
as possessing the rank in question+ + with or without corporal ignominy. Degradation, did
it answer precisely to the account definition given of it when it is
stiled forthat feiture of rank should take away, from a man
that precise quantity of reputation, and consequently of
good will, and consequently good offices and consequently
of happiness, for which he stands indebted to his
rank. But as these quantities are incapable of being
measured or even estimated with any tolerable degree
of exactness, the punishment of degradation can never
with any certainty be made to answer precisely to its such
definition. It seems probable that a man who has once
been possessed of a certain rank can never be totally
deprived of all the reputation, respect and good offices
that are commonly rendered to that rank, the imaginations
of mankind are too stubborn to yield instant
and perfect obedience nod of power. It seems
probable notwithstanding that the condition of a man
who

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	24-25
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	forfeiture of reputation
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f25 / f26 / f27 / f28
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48329
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