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1.
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Of Punishments In general
1.
When a man is liable to suffer punishment for
any offence he may be also said to be responsible criminally
for such that offence.
2
What a man is made to pay under the notion of
refunding what pecuniary profit he has made by the
offence, is not any part of it in exchange for the profit to
be taken into the account of Punishment.
3.
But whatever a man is made to pay over and
above such profit, or where there is a no pecuniary profit,
is to be placed to the account of punishment. It's
being given in the way of compensation to his adversary
the party injured does not make it the
less penal for him to part with it, but the more.
4.
Let the Judge be upon his guard on this occasion against
collusive contrivances for concealing the profit of an
offence.
It may be that the Sum of money or other thing which
constituted
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