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Simple afflictive Punishments
Whipping and Beating

Whipping and beating are as they are the most
obvious so are they the most general modes
of applying afflictive punishment that are in
use. Whipping is striking with a flexible instrument:
Beating, with an inflexible one. As
the degree of flexibility is susceptible of infinite
variation, the two modes have spoken of are run
into one another in a manner not to be distinguished.
When the instrument is so flexible as
to be apt, when agitated, to run into a knot,
it is called a whip: when it is not so flexible
as that, but yet enough so to apply itself to the
windings of the surface it is made to strike upon, it
is called a rod: in both these cases the action of
striking with it is called whipping. When it
admits not even of this degree of flexibility, it
is called a stick: in this case the action of
striking with it is called beating.

In whipping and beating, the effect we see is
produced by the mechanical powers of the instrument:
it acts principally by impulse: and it is the
instrument that acts is made to act upon the patient.

The part to which this punishment is applied
when inflicted by authority of the Magistrate is, in
this and most countries, commonly the back In schools,
under the authority of the domestic jurisdiction, the usage
in

Identifier: | JB/159/144/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-8
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field	simple afflictive punishments
Image	001	Titles	note / text
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	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53967
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