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Punishment – one lot may Serve

he were prosecuted in to the Ecclesiastical Court by Libel. If
he were prosecuted punished by Action alone, the business point of prevention
would oftentimes not be adequately provided
for. If he were prosecuted in any two of these ways
at once, he would be punished always more and often
twice as much as than could be any use for.
If he were punished prosecuted in all three, he would be punished
always, a great deal more and often thrice as much
as could be of any use.

This was not all his punishment: nor the excess of
his punishment the only mischief. The costs of prosecution
though an unexemplary were in fact a very
heavy punishment; in many perhaps most cases instances more
severe heavy than the penalties themselves. The trouble of
so many prosecutions was as to half two thirds or at
least half of it an unnecessary charge upon the public.
[For when a man is once found to have done the
first alledged, as much a is done as could be done
by a thousand trials.] Either a man has been proved guilty
or he has not: if he has not he ought not to be punished suffer
at all: if he has he ought to suffer as much punishment
as his case requires.

These inconveniences succeeding Judges have laboured to
correct; but with inadequate powers, with unsteady views,
and therefore with incomplete success.

State the practice on this head

Identifier: | JB/159/095/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	095	Info in main headings field	punishment - one lot may serve
Image	002	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
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	53918
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