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3 March 1811
By this circumstance it torture stands distinguished
from not only from compulsion itself, but by from any
act of punishment considered or employed applied to the purpose of
compulsion in the ordinary mode.
Obtainment of information – if information to be employed applied
in the shape character of evidence to the purposes in the service use of justice
is the purpose for which torture has been most commonly
been applied.
Take any mode of inflicting bodily pain
upon in case of disobedience to a command offered in the shape of
a question relative to a certain fact, suppose a certain it
number of lashes attached by way of a definitive number
of which no remission is allowed. There is here a
punishment not coming within the under the notice or denomination or motion notion of torture.
By For To the same offence suppose the same number
of lashes attached, but with power to remitt any
or all of them upo in case of if and
immediately upon compliance. If this b Here the
punishment, if such it be, is so circumstanced as to
come under the notion and denomination of torture.
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