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Punishment - whether defeasible by Death

in that of compensation, that a Law whichby appoints
the latter is not understood to punish:appoint the former it is not
looked upon as a penal Law.

Punish however it must, a penal Law in
Yet compensation
without punishment
is an inadequate remedy
one the sense of the word, it must be, if it has is to have any
effect at all in preventing the practise which is
productive of the mischief it means to cure. And
it is by punishing that it does more good than
by indemnifying. For of the two ends prevention
and indemnificationcompensation, the former, as has been been proved,
is beyond comparison by much the most important.

This neglect however of the principal end of Laws
The purpose of
punishment is however in has frequently
many instances however
answered without
design.
made against in restraint of private injuries has not been attended
with all the ill consequences that might at
first sight be imagined. The indemnification being
made to come oout of the pocket of the aggressor,
has produced the punishedment of course.
Now under the Laws of most all nations, indemnification
has been exacted underin most casesinstances of acknowledged
injury indemnification has been exacted: [+] | I say
[+] and therefore by that means in the
most cases it has happened that punishment
has been applied.
Yet not in all;
because compensation
has been made
defeasible by contingenies
in most, but it has not in all. For there are however
two events in by which in all those cases indemnification
is rendered not so necessary in so great a degree as it was before,
and, as it may appear upon a superficial glance, not necessary at
all. In effect upon the happening of either of these two

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Identifier: | JB/141/134/002 "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	134	Info in main headings field	b. 6 ch. 4 section 3 defeazance of punishment punishment - whether defeasible by death
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
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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