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Punishment distinguished & defined.

If either case, it may be stiled and Act of Coercion.

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An Act of
Torture.
If being an Act of compulsion the object of it was my
doing something that it appeared to be in my power to
do, upon the spot, for instance, telling you something You
wanted to be informed of, which done, and not before,
the pain you were putting me was to cease, and that
pain were of the bodily kind, your act is what is commonly
understood to be meant by an Act of Torture.

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An Act of
Prevention
The same Act which might called an Act of Restraint
with respect to one, as laying a restraint on one, may be be called
an Act of Prevention with respect to any mischief expected
at my hands: to wit as preventing the production
of such mischief. The same observation remark may be made with regard to any other person, in whom the apprehension of
a pain he sees me undergo may be productive of restraint.

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An Act of Punishment
may as such be an Act
either of Vengeance or
Prevention
If my pain was the conclusive object of your intention
and the occasion of such intention was a past Act supposed to





Identifier: | JB/159/031/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

9-16

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

031

Info in main headings field

punishment distinguished & defined

Image

002

Titles

note

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

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

53854

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