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Punishment analysed into its various possible Modes.
As to the other, to reap pleasure or security or advantage
from any object is to do what is called making use of it:
to have it in one's power to reap pleasure or security or
advantage from it is to possess it. Any particular Object, in
as far as a man makes use of it or is supposed to have
the power to make use of it, is numbered among his possessions.
When a man in the way of punishment is deprived
of the power of making use of any of his possessions,
he is said to forfeit such possession. Any punishment
therefore which subjects a man to pain by effecting a change
in the condition he was in of being able to reap pleasure or security
or advantage from particular external objects may be termed a
Privative punishment, or without the mention of the word Punishment,
a Forfeiture. All Punishments then (that produces self-respecting
Pains) are either personal Punishments or Forfeitures.
Let
Note
than corporal, because a much more confined sense is commonly given to
the latter. It is sometimes confined to express the class of punishments to
which I have given the name of passive: besides this it is sometimes made
to include Imprisonment.
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