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Punishment distinguished & defined.

Act of mere restraint, which in one sense is an Act of
prevention [of mere physical compulsion] of taxation or
other Act whereby a burthen is imposed, of Self-preservation,
and of Self-defence in that all these cases
the pain that is produced is either not at all the Object
of the intention, or only obliquely: in an Act of punishment
it is a direct object of the intention. In all those
other Cases suppose the pain away and the respective
effects of the several Acts may be nevertheless obtained. In
the case of punishment it is the pain itself that is the
effect proposed to be attained, and either no other, or no
other but what is attained by means of it.

It differs from an Act of Torture in that it is essential
to the former that it be done on account of some
past Act or omission of the party suffering: to the latter
that it be done on account of some future Act, which
done the former Act is made to cease.

It differs from an Act of Compensation; in that by the former</p>

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	20
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	033	Info in main headings field	punishment distinguished & defined
Image	005	Titles	note
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53856
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