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BIII, C. 3 G Forfeiture of Reputation

We now come to consider the punishment of Infamy or Forfeiture of Reputation.(a) The nature of this punishment we have

Note.

(a)

Though Infamy is the more common, Forfeiture of Reputation is the more commodious convenient expreſsion of the two. Infamy is a Term which will appears forced not commodiously apply when applied to any other than very high degrees of the punishment in question: the phrase Forfeiture of Reputation is accomodated to one degree as well as another: for the quantity of reputation may be conceived to be divided into as many lots or degrees as can be required. there can be occasion for.

The turn and structures of language having put a man's reputation like his estate upon the footing of poſseſsions, men have considered and spoken of the subject as if it were a quantity alike determinate and as if a man might be made to forfeit the whole of his reputation at a single stroke, as he may the whole of his estate.

But that this, though poſsible in the latter instance, is impoſsible in the former will presently be seen by tracing up these fictitious objects of poſseſsion to the real objects from whence they are respectively derived. A man's estate is derived out of things: out of certain determinate allotments of things moveable or immoveable; or if any part
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