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<p>Expedient 2. Providing adequate <add>apposite</add> redress for injuries<lb/>in point of honour in particular.<lb/></p> | |||
<p>On the present occasion this class of injuries<lb/>demands the <del>p</del> more particular notice, in as<lb/>much as the tendency they have to excite the<lb/>irascible appetite & provoke to vengeance is particularly <lb/>strong.<lb/></p><p>[On this head too the English law is remarkably<lb/>defective]<lb/></p>When an injury of this class is <sic>offer'd</sic> to<lb/>a man, the effect of it is that a certain <del>part</del><lb/>share of the reputation of the party injured is <add>thereby instantly</add> taken<lb/>away; power being left him to regain it <add>within a certain interval</add> by challenging<lb/>the injurer to fight. If at the end of<lb/>that interval no such challenge is given, a farther<lb/>share of reputation is also lost: the reputation<lb/>that depends upon that degree of [the quality of]<lb/>courage the possession is looked to have been disproved<lb/>by the transaction. Meantime the wrongdoer<lb/>suffers either no loss <add>at all</add> in point of reputation<lb/>or at least not so much less as is <sic>sufferd</sic><lb/>by the party injured. In the case of <del>an adequate</del><lb/>a provocation which is deemed adequate, none at<lb/>all: <del>in the case</del> <add>even</add> where there appears to have been<lb/>no provocation or at least none that is adequate,<lb/><note>still</note><pb/> | |||
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Indirect Legislation
Satisfying
Expedient 2. Providing adequate apposite redress for injuries
in point of honour in particular.
On the present occasion this class of injuries
demands the p more particular notice, in as
much as the tendency they have to excite the
irascible appetite & provoke to vengeance is particularly
strong.
[On this head too the English law is remarkably
defective]
When an injury of this class is offer'd to
a man, the effect of it is that a certain part
share of the reputation of the party injured is thereby instantly taken
away; power being left him to regain it within a certain interval by challenging
the injurer to fight. If at the end of
that interval no such challenge is given, a farther
share of reputation is also lost: the reputation
that depends upon that degree of [the quality of]
courage the possession is looked to have been disproved
by the transaction. Meantime the wrongdoer
suffers either no loss at all in point of reputation
or at least not so much less as is sufferd
by the party injured. In the case of an adequate
a provocation which is deemed adequate, none at
all: in the case even where there appears to have been
no provocation or at least none that is adequate,
still
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