JB/159/096/001

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Convertibility to Profit

The property of being convertible to profit
is one that at first sight one should suppose
[could be possessed by] no other mode of punishment but
pecuniary could possess. It may however
be possessed by Laborious Punishment. It
may also in some cases be possessed by that kind of punishment
which consists in the laying a man
under a restraint with a respect to the exercising
a lucrative occupation. It may even
in some particular cases be possessed by Banishment
or Death: to wit when if the offender only should
by any accident have become a in point of
expence a burthen to the community.

Whether Punishment of the Laborious kind is
in any instance convertible to profit depends
partly upon the talents of the offender, partly
in the oeconomy employ'd in the management
of persons exposed subjected to this mode of punishment.

It is only by accident that the subjecting an
offender to restraint with respect to the exercising
a lucrative occupation is convertible to profit a means of giving producing any, even
a profit to such an amount as to be any sensible
amount. When the occupation his in few from
whatever

Identifier: | JB/159/096/001 "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	096	Info in main headings field	convertibility to profit
Image	001	Titles
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	53919
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