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Punishment whether defeasible by length of Time Infi

When a crime has been committed, either the foot-bars prosecution
not execution after.
person only who did it committed may remain unknown, or
the fact itself as well as the person. [Under theNOTE
name of the fact I would here include be understood such and so many circumstances
as are necessary to makebring the act in question That a man has
escaped too long already
what has
been proved to be
his due, is no reason
why he should be
freed from it altogether.
come under the denomination of some crime.] If someth
factso much If either be unknownunsuspected, it is plain [there can not
have been any prosecution.] no prosecution can have
been set on foot. If both be known then either a
prosecution may have been set on foot, or not. It
is only in case of there being no prosecution that Prescription
has ever been allowed. The rule is that
a man shall not be prosecuted after that interval
has is elapsed, not that if he has been prosecuted
and convicted, he shall not suffer.

The apprehension alarm of danger commences fromat the Proviso for this
innocent.
time of the discovery. Persons who are about the
criminal now understand that they have among
them a Thief, a Robber, or a Murderer. This
cannot but give them some alarm. If no punishment
at all is to be inflicted on him, [+] If he is suffer'd to go on and live where he did before, how
is this alarm to be quieted.

In crimes the object of which is a pecuniary
profit, prescription ought in no not in any case to operate so
as to protect the delinquent in the enjoyment of his
ill-gotten acquisiition

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Identifier: | JB/141/133/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	133	Info in main headings field	punishment whether defensible by length of time
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 f1 / f2 f4 / f5 f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::ac propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48350
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