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Of punishment in general

Why punishment the above offences under the above exceptions are discharged
from punishment by a lapse of six months.

1. Because if there be no prosecution in all
that time it shows that punishment is either groundless
or needless or both: since it shows the party who
was the object of the offence is If he at his case : which being the case, there is no primary mischief. Now if
in general if he is satisfied it it shews that either so will every body
else be: there will therefore be no pri secondary
mischief. He may be satisfied at his case either because his
offence was originally as slight as not to be worth
regarding; or because let it have been what it will the offender may have
it up to him and given him satisfaction. It is
to be observed that the apprehension of punishment
is itself a punishment.

2. The opening a door to well grounded prosecutions
opens a likewise a door to groundless ones.
See Compensation Sect. 12. Reason 4.
This is an additional reason for sheltering the
against such as were originally well grounded as soon as it can be
done with safety.

It is evident Observations

Introductions to

It is evident that the precise time which it
may be proper to allow for prosecuting is liable
to great uncertainty. A line must be drawn
somewhere: but the reasons which dictate the propriety of drawing
it somewhere apply not to any one to the exclusion
of those contiguous to it. The line therefore wheresoever

Identifier: | JB/143/030/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	143	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	030	Info in main headings field	of punishment in general
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / / / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48663
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