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CRIT. JUR. CRIM.
S's is, there is twice as much reason why the damage
should rest on S, as why it should be transferred to
A. For by A's being by being made to bear the damage will
be put to twice as much pain as B S. would be put to
by bearing to being made to bear the same damage.
The enquiry seems already to be carried on to a
greater degree of exactness than can as is likely to be put to any
use in practise.
There are yet other questions considerations which it woul might be
necessary to solve pay attention to ere the distribution that ought to be made of damage
when that happening by accident can be compleatly
and exactly ascertained upon the principle of utility.
Has for instance Such are the in I hope Let the
case damage for instance that bears is ears a great ratio
to S's fortune, and S's fortune tho' greater than
A's be not much greater, and let the sum of the damage
be conceived to be divided into two parts. First
let A. S. be conceived to have suffer'd one only of those
parts
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