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<head>23 March 1826<lb/> | |||
Penal Code<lb/> | |||
ChIII. Person and Reputation<lb/> | |||
§7. Corporal <unclear>vexation</unclear></head> | |||
<note>6<lb/> | |||
The state of things<lb/> | |||
in question very detrimental<lb/> | |||
to general<lb/> | |||
happiness</note> | |||
<p>Be this as it may, a sate of things in which<lb/> | |||
even on the score of the very injury contempt<lb/> | |||
attaches itself to the injurer howsoever guilty<lb/> | |||
to the sufferer, howsoever completely innocent,<lb/> | |||
and <sic>attrociously</sic> injured, and whether possessed<lb/> | |||
or not a chance of defending himself and<lb/> | |||
averting the injury, is a state of things<lb/> | |||
unquestionably detrimental to general<lb/> | |||
happiness. Contempt for whole<del><gap/></del> is everywhere<lb/> | |||
the law of the land, gives remuneration<lb/> | |||
and encouragement to injustice, and stabilities<lb/> | |||
a sort of petty tyranny, and as many petty<lb/> | |||
tyrants as there are persons, who find<lb/> | |||
others unable to <add>oppose resistance to their will</add> resist them, or are fearful<lb/> | |||
of the consequences. There then is a manifest<lb/> | |||
<unclear>aberration</unclear> of the decrees of the <sic>publick</sic> opinion<lb/> | |||
tribunal, from the unquestionable rule of<lb/> | |||
right, an ab<del>b</del>eration, which it is incumbent<lb/> | |||
on the legislator to use his endeavours to put an end to</p> | |||
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23 March 1826
Penal Code
ChIII. Person and Reputation
§7. Corporal vexation
6
The state of things
in question very detrimental
to general
happiness
Be this as it may, a sate of things in which
even on the score of the very injury contempt
attaches itself to the injurer howsoever guilty
to the sufferer, howsoever completely innocent,
and attrociously injured, and whether possessed
or not a chance of defending himself and
averting the injury, is a state of things
unquestionably detrimental to general
happiness. Contempt for whole is everywhere
the law of the land, gives remuneration
and encouragement to injustice, and stabilities
a sort of petty tyranny, and as many petty
tyrants as there are persons, who find
others unable to oppose resistance to their will resist them, or are fearful
of the consequences. There then is a manifest
aberration of the decrees of the publick opinion
tribunal, from the unquestionable rule of
right, an abberation, which it is incumbent
on the legislator to use his endeavours to put an end to
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