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March 1811
3. Whether the act result would not be of the
negative or if the positive cast language the usage of affords ends
which are both are competent in the designation
of it , obligation, burthen are the words so many
that to this head.
Amendment or reformation next It is chiefly In the case when
two ultimately intentional result is an act in that
of things of the important act, that the
Amendment or reformation, and disablement
are words expressive of the result aimed at in so
far as the conduct in question is that of the supposed delinquent is concerned:
in the case of amendment or reformation
the obnoxious act is considered regarded as being of such a
nature that by an a single instance of its being committed
such a degree of depravity of disorder in the moral mental constitution is
indicated as to remove it and bring the patient back the mind
to a state of ordinary purity requires a and general
change.
Few acts opinions of the positive cast In the class of positive
negative offences few bring to if any bring to be
formed which are commonly seen to exhibit any such
degree of malignity, hence the use of the terms amendment
and reforming is nearly confined to the case
when the obnoxious act the prevention of which is the
ultimate object of the punishment is considered as being
of the positive kind: personal violence, depredation, false and wilful defamation:
and so forth.
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