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105
CRIT. JUR. CRIM.
With regard to Punishment when pecuniary it is to
be observed that the same payment which serves
for compensation, serves also for punishment. It
Here It is therefore a cruel and flagrant absurdity to
when a person has been punished is made to ma made
to suffer under the name of compensation what
were punishment alone considered would be deemed
sufficient for the purpose of punishment, and to have
that item out of the account, and to make him suffer
de novo under the name of punishment. The
be The blindness of a Lawyer on this head is perfectly astonishing
(At this period of deliberate and comprehensive
speculation the blindness of those Lawyers
who laid the foundations of this part of the legal founded this part of the legal fabric
system seems perfectly astonishing. When the penalty
levied was paid to the sufferer by any a jury, and
(When the punishment was a penalty, and the penalty
applied to the profit of the sufferer and seen to have and as
suspicion whatsoever that it could be any pain to the author of the injury
to part with it.) When a man was made to pay money
on account of his having done an injury to
another, if the money was to be paid to the Royal
Treasury, or to some other public fund, they called it
a penalty: they considered that it ought be a punishment.
When the money was to be paid to the person
who had been a sufferer by the injury, they
called
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crit. jur. crim |
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punishment / compensation / prevention little consider'd formerly / history / compensation - in what way serviceable |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown] propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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