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of Hanover. The Insolvent and Bankrupt Laws seated Collective
and the occasional Insolvent acts, ex stretch the
punishment up toas high as death: A pecuniary penalty
it is to be observed could not in those instances havetake
place, since the destination which it is the scopepurpose
of those Laws to enforce is next toa total or almost a total
one.

Thus much concerning the power to be given to
the executive department Magistrate for the purpose of making
compensation. But for the mere purpose
of compensation, without any particular suspicion of disaffection,
it would hardly be precedent in here
to extend the charge burthen beyond the dependent kindred
of the Rebel, nor on them farther than
as they had assets from their Rebel Ancestor

The next Act Statute I shall take notice of in this view is that
for d punishment of the corruption that prevailed
in the Borough of New Shoreham.|| A [Society || || G.3.c.55. (X 30.5
calling itself the Christian Society consisting of a large majority of the Electors of that Borough had
formed itself and subsisted for several years, for the purpose of filling
the Seats in Parliament for that Borough. On
this account, the all who were members of that society,
were by name with great propriety laid under a perpetual
incapacitation. ThisSo much consider'd as a punishment
would bewas a punishment in proprias
personas. But the proper method of considering light in which this measure
this measureought to be considered seems not to have been that of punishment


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Identifier: | JB/141/138/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.

Date_1

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not numbered

Box

141

Main Headings

rationale of punishment

Folio number

138

Info in main headings field

punishment in alienam personam

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f37 / f38

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::propatria [britannia motif]]]

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Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

48355

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