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Click Here To Edit Punishment - whether defasible by Death
representative in the score of punishment if on
no other. In the latter case there would still be an
use in its being made to devolve on the representative
[+] as far as the possessions he inherits from the party deceased extend to [+], though not so great an use as in the former
use. I mean to the extent of the possession he
inherits from the deceased.
1st Ther Where the profit of a crimeour a transgression is transmissible
to a representative the obligation of restoring the
amount of it ought likewise to devolve on him.
If not the punishment would not in the case in
question be equal to the profit; in fact there would
be no punishment at all: no motive for the party to a encounter
the temptation under temptation to abstain from it. It may occur
for athe first moment (but it will soon appear to be otherwise)
that neither will there in in contemplation of this case be any
temptation: for if the injurer thinks himself about
to die, Death there will be an end of the profit of the injury.
But this is not the case: should he do
be ever so soon made to lose it ever so soon himself, he may transmitt
it to those who are dear to him: so that the pleasure
of sympathy grounded in the contemplation of
their enjoyment is a clear force that impells himacts without
+ anything to controul contain it it.controul and <add>impells</add>impells him to transgression. to transgression without+ controul. (Besides this the
delays and uncertainty of Justice [afford for the
inducement to dishonesty] add still to the force of the temptation
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b. 6 ch. 4 section 3 defeazance of punishment punishment - whether defeasible by death |
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jeremy bentham |
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