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Of Punishments In General

after he has been once convicted whether they will prosecute
or no: which is in effect giving them the power of pardoning
him. As often as this happens there are two cases in which
a man sees it in his power to commit even so many offences
with impunity. These are 1st. Where in the course of one
and the same enterprise he has it in his power to commit
two or more offences without any greater risk of being discovered
than if he had committed but one of them: for instance
a Theft after having committed a Murder at the same
conjuncture in the same house: or one Murder after having committed
another. 2. Where an offender knows that he already
stands detected, and that he will surely be punished for
a certain offence if he be apprehended. In this case he will
have nothing to restrain him from committing in his flight
or during his abscondency, all sorts of offences whereof the punishment
is merged in the punishment of that which has
been discovered. Let him, for instance, have been already
discovered to have committed a Murder for which if he were
apprehended

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	17-21
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	025	Info in main headings field	of punishments in general
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48658
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