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Punishment, one lob may Serve

system of English Jurisprudence in this country.

If the punishment that is inflicted on a man for
one of these purposes with an serves as far as it does
for the other two, the punishing him over gain
for another of these purposes in the same meas degree as
it would not be proper
if he had not been punished at all, is a manifest
waste of misery. Accordingly a maxim
laid down pretty early by our English Lawyers is
that Nemo bis punitur pro eodem delicto.
No one ought to be twice punished for the same
offence. Nothing could be more rational wh than this maxim, were it
but adhered to. The misfortune is that if their meaning
is to be collected from their practise, by be twice punished
they meant six times punished. For the truth is that three
times punished, is what in many cases for several offences is what any man may
be. A man only is the might be punished once for the purpose
of prevention example: For the purpose of compensation he might be punished a second time
for the purpose of compensation as if he had never
been punished before: For the purpose of Reformation He may be punished som in
some cases even a third time as if he had never
been punished before. All they meant was, that he
could not be punished twice for any one of all these purposes.

Let us To be a little more particular. You and I are
at enmity: You have given me a wound. How then
To a man of plain understanding then it would seem that if
you


Identifier: | JB/159/094/002
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

094

Info in main headings field

punishment - one lot may serve for all three purposes

Image

002

Titles

note

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

caroline vernon

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

53917

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