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Click Here To Edit Ins:a) Punishment in alienam personam.
His memory shall endure at least as as long as these
pages will find readers.
These mild and considerate measures form a beautiful
contrast with the precipitate & caustic
expedients entacted on us by barborous Legislators.
Deodands. If this should be thought an institution fit to stand
I will propose an improvement upon it: Ahab
hath served Baal a little, John shall serve
him much.
It is not a tax. It is not a measure of self-
defence. I know not what it is if their thing
in which there is the least particle shadow of possible utility.
Bail. The case of Bail is may serve at first great measure sight to be precisely parallel with
the case above supposed: the tribunal which except that the tribunal wch
inflicts the punishment is different & the modein that case is the domestic, is in this case the political,
of punishment in different Body in This however is not the case. The punishment which
the Bail may come to suffer, he suffers for his
own default. It is therefore a punishment if the same. not of the It
in vicarious punishment inflicted by consent of
ordinary and proper kind out of the improper. the party punished. A man is I am committed to
prison suppose for a crime, a felony. You
go to the Judge and say, let this man out, let
me have charge of him, and if he does not
surrender himself to take his trial, so that he
may be punished hanged if guilty, I will see be punished
for him: that is in a pecuniary way by the loss of
In virtue of this
such a Sum. The Judge settles the sum, you consent
By this transaction you are said to have become Bail for my appearance. The consequence the consequence is If I do not appear, the sum is levied on you.
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jeremy bentham |
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