JB/159/084/001

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3 March 1811

Where the offence is of such a nature viz a negative
offence that the punishment applied to it as in the character of a remedy
bears the name of compulsion – when in a word the
act of punishment is of becomes the remedy be successful an
act of compulsion – in this case and in this case alone it is that the continuance duration of the punishment
depends not upon the Judge but upon the offender himself.
It is from the Let it terminate when it
will, it is from the offender himself from the party
himself on whom it is inflicted, that it receives
its termination: and torture is that case one of
all cases in which the compulsion – the desirable termination – follows at the
end of the shortest interval the act of the will by which
it is produced.

In some No sooner Scarce then has the offence ceased, but
the punishment has ceased along with it: and thus
for all is on the side of lenity.

But on the other hand so long as the offence
continues, so long does the punishment continue
along with it: and, unless, by positive institution, a
definite length of time be allowed to it,– a definite
limitation be applied to the length of time during which it
shall be continued,– it ceases not till life itself ceases.
Nor & is life in this way made to cease until
the patient has endured a mass of suffering greater
than any which is scarcely equalled by any thing else that
has ever been designated by the name of punishment.

Identifier: | JB/159/084/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 159.
Date_1	1811-03-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	100 or 16 - 101 or 17
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	084	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c7 / c2 / d48 / e48
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53907
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