JB/098/040/004

Click Here To Edit

36.

C
Of Compensation.
the account of Compensation were in case of the party's death
to be exacted on the account of punishment. But in
practice this is perhaps no where hitherto the case: in many cases if
a Sum so due be not exacted on the account of compensation,
it is not exacted at all: so much of the punishment
sinks altogether. The guilty person is pro
tanto appointed successor to the innocent party who
has fallen a victim to his crimes. Here then is always
a certain quantity of punishment extinguishable upon a contingency
which depends not in any degree upon the innocence
of the offender. This quantity will be always form a very
considerable part of the punishment and will often-
-times form the whole. Whenever this contingency happens,
injured innocence sinks without redress, falls unaddressed, and the offender
triumphs in his guilt. offence.

5. Which has worse
consequences when it
proceeds from a defect
the Law itself,
than if from accident.
5. When an offender owing to some accidental circumstance, is seen to escape the chastisement
of the Law, it is at any rate a mischievous example:
but it is much worse when the Law has done every thing

Identifier: | JB/098/040/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f33 / f34 / f35 / f36
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31648
Box Contents