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Punishment - whether defeasible by Death

events, inunder most Laws and particularly inunder our own
the obligation of making compensation has been cancelled.
At the same time compensation being the only object
in view, this being taken away punishment has
of course dropped along with it. But in these
cases as I hope soon to make appear , howsoever
it may standbe with compensation, the demand for
punishment has been not been lessen'd by either of the events
in question.

These are 1st the Death of the injurer: 2dly
the death of the party injured.

1st The Death of the party injurer has been deemed 1. by The death
of the damnifier
to take away the occasion ground for indeminification. The
reason that occurs is that there is nobody to indemnify give it [Where
Had he continued where he ought tohave given it, doubtless. But as
he is gone who ought then? Why one person rather
than another?

One may answer certainly, nobody in the case
where the offence producedin such as produces not any & are transferable profit

To answer these questions at large we must maketake But this it ought
not to be - 1
1st Where the profit
of the offence is
pecuniary & descends
uponto his
representatives.
a distinction according to in the nature off the offence.
When The offence is either attended with ano transferable
profit, a no fruit transmissible to the successor representatives of
the offender or not. WhenOn An offence of the first
sort, the representative ought clearly In the first case the obligation of
making compensation ought clearly to devolve on the representative

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Identifier: | JB/141/134/003 "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	003	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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