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B6.Ch.4
Sec.3 Punishment - whether defeasible by Death.

tion. If he can contrive to spin out the suit till so long
as he lives, the whole business from beginning to end
is clear gain to him.

2. Even wherethough the profit of a transgression he is be 2. Nor even
where no pecuniary
profit descends
to them.
not of such a nature as to be transmissible to
a representative there seems still to be a reason why
the obligation to of making amends ought to devolve
on the representatives as far as thay have assets [a]
Such an arrangement institution would be eligible as well on
account of a punishment as of compensation.] On - because there is
. Act on account
of need of compensation
a
account of compensation for the following reasons:
The mishief of the transgression is a burthen that must
be born by somebody: the representative and the
party injured are equally innocent: in thatthis respect
they stand upon a par: But the representative
would suffer less fromunder the same burthen
than the party injured as we shall presently perceive.
From the moment when the injury was conceived,
the party injured, in virtue of the known
disposition of the law in his favour, conceivedentertained expectations
of receivingbeing made amends. IfThese expectations
are disappointed when by [Let] a sudden and unforeseen
event like that of the deliquent's, death, a shock is felt by the party injured such a
person feels asuch a shock as he would feel at the sudden loss

NOTE

7(a) Assets] Effects descending to them from the ancestor, &
liable to alienation

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Identifier: | JB/141/135/001 "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	135	Info in main headings field	b 6 ch 4 sec 3 punishment whether defeasible by death
Image	001	Titles	note
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	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
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