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Of the Lex Talionis.

labour of under certain other services. to the benefit of the delinquent
or other

2. It is not uniformly frugal. It is frugal or not
according to the particular species of punishment which nature of the injury in each case
respectively prescribes.

3. Neither can it be uniformly equable: it is equable
or not, as before according to the nature of the injury.

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5. Neither upon the whole can it be uniformly exemplary upon: and that
for the same reason. On one account however it is exemplary
to a certain degree on the face of the description; and that
whatever have been the injury, and consequently
whatever be the punishment consist of the particular mode of punishment. Upon the face of the
description, that is to a man who being under a
temptation to committ the crime reads the punishment of for it in the Law, a punishment chosen upon this principle it will probably appear
greater in proportion to the profit of the crime than
another punishment would that was really of equal
magnitude. This property [it possesses belongs to it] in virtue
of another property which it possesses in perfection
viz: that of Analogy. A man who is under temptation
to committ a crime, if he knows this to be
the rule of punishment cannot think of the pleasure
of the crime but he must think also of the
pain of the punishment. The greater is that pleasure
is in his eyes, the greater is this pain. So that
the

Identifier: | JB/159/130/004 "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	130	Info in main headings field	of the lex talionis
Image	004	Titles	frugality / equability / exemplarity
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	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53953
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