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B.6.
d.4.

Section 3 Defeasance of punishment Punishment whether defeasible by Death of Parties

In pursuit of (the means of makinggiving] Compensation, The punishment
included in the
burthen of yielding
compensation
is apt to be
overlooked.
the business of Punishment is apt to be overlooked.
When one man the party injured is presented with what
another man the delinquentinjurer is made to pay, men
are apt to take it for granted, and if asked at first
would asking be apt to answer that there is no punishment
in the case. They imagine, but hastily and Their notion is but it is a hasty
erroneously,and erroneous [notion] one that the only person who has suffer'd
by the offence is that party who is the immediate
object of the injury. If then (he[+]) be made to enjoy] [+] that person by an
operation of Law
as much as by the offence he had been made to suffer, they
conclude (and justly enough were the foundation true)
that every thing is set to rights, and that the Law
has nothing more to do. The pain which the offender
is made to suffer by being made to give
up what the party injured is made to enjoy
they do not look upon in the light of punishment.
They look upon it as a circumstance arisingresulting accidentally
and without designunintentionally out of the operation
by which [the injured party is indemnified.] an
indemnification is prodcured to the injured party.
so that it would be but so much the better if that
pain could be altogether spared; and it is for want out of inability
of being able to save it that it is sufferd to exist. In
short so entirely is the idea of punishment lost in

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Identifier: | JB/141/134/001 "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	134	Info in main headings field	b. 6 ch. 4 section 3 defeazance of punishment punishment - whether defeasible by death
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48351
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