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Advantages and Disadvantages of Pecuniary Forfeitures.
degree of Infamy, except with that which is necessarily
attached to the offence.
6. In point of exemplarity it has nothing in particular
to boast of. It [Neither indeed is that quality of
so much importance to it for the lower rank order of
offences to which, from its lightness mildness it is particularly
destined.] At the execution of junction of it no spectacle
is exhibited: the the transfer of a sum of money on this on the account of punishment
account of this sort has nothing to distinguish it from the case
of an ordinary payment. It is not furnished with
any of those symbolical helps to exemplarity
which belong to many corporal most punishments
of the corporal kind. Upon the face of the description,
the exemplarity it possesses is in proportion po proportion to
the quantity quantum of it: that is in the ratio ratio of
the quantum of the forfeiture to the capital of the
man him whom it is to effect.
In point of Popularity this punishment is remarkable
for being almost the only one against which some no popular objection
or other has not been made.
The same objection observation is all that [may be applied] and be made with respect to its
subserviency to Reformation.
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rationale of punishment |
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advantages and disadvantages of pecuniary forfeitures |
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variability / exemplarity / subserviency to reformation / popularity |
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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