JB/141/133/002

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Proviso for the innocent. 2 Prescription Neither ought it not to operate in such manner as
to exposeleave innocent persons exposed to alarm suffer
from their terror or abhorrence of the criminal

3. [Prescription not to operate be adopted in case
In what offences not to be admittedof]

There are also certain crimes in respect of which Prescription
ought not to be adopted in any case.
Such are 3 species of Homicide: viz. Homicide through for Lucre, through
wantonness, or from premeditated throughResentment:
Incendiarism, and [the offence sinking a vessel manned, or of laying a country
under water] Inundation. The mischief of these
crimes of these kinds are is so great, that it seems
not advisable for the sakepaying too great a regard to the interests of the criminal to
adopt a rulemeasu that may contribute though in ever so
small a degree to lessen the apparent certainty of
the punishment: and the horror or horrors a fact of any of
3f-433= those kinds inspire when discover'd is [so great, that
it would hardly be that circumstance alone made it hardly worth the while]. seems enough to overweigh any good
that could be gained by it.

What is the good in view in Prescription?
What is gained by it. It is the interest of one single person that is in
question: the delinquent. The savingsparing of that single
person which from a calamitysuffering which it is supposed
it may in the case in which it is proposed
the Prescription should take place not be necessary
at least not so necessary to the purposes of punishment.
Now when it is a crime by which men

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Identifier: | JB/141/133/002 "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	002	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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