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Click Here To Edit 10 Punishment - whether defeasible by Death

From p.7. at bottom The Law of England has been more liberal in
Imperfection of the English Law in this behalf. [extending the remedy the remedysies it has given] to the Heir of the party injured
than in [those which extending it it has given] against the Heir
of [thea] wrong-doer. It extendsgives it to the Heir in all
cases as it should seem, of injuries done to the
property to the property of the Ancestor but not
It denies it however in the case of injuries to the
person + +, Comyer's Dig. 262 ; be they ever so atrocious; and probably
in the case of injuries to the reputation. This
negligenceomission leaves [the door]an open a door to the most
crying evils. Age and imbecilityinfirmity which ought
if [there be] any differencebe made to receive a more signal
protection from the Law than the opposite conditions of life are exposed more particularly
to oppression. The nearer a man is to his
grave the greater is the probability that he may
be injured with impunity: since if the present
prosecution can be staved off during his life, the
remedy is gone.[a] The remedy by a criminal prosecution
is but an inadequate succedanium. It extendsnot

NOTE

[a] A man may be kept under Imprisonment in Gaol and his fortune
ruined by it; and if he dies under the Imprisonment
his family are without remedy. In many some cases the wrongdoer
may not even be punishable by a criminal prosecution.
Or he may be maltreated in such a manner
as to contract a lingering distemper; which such as does not follow
from the injurious treatment with sufficient speed and certainty

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field	b 6 ch 4 sec 3 punishment whether defeasible by death
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
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