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has <add><del>is</del></add> elapsed, not that if he has been prosecuted<lb/> | has <add><del>is</del></add> elapsed, not that if he has been prosecuted<lb/> | ||
and convicted, he shall not suffer.</p> | and convicted, he shall not suffer.</p> | ||
<p>The apprehension <add><del><gap/> alarm</del></add> of danger commences from<add>at</add> the <note><unclear>Provest</unclear> for this innocent.</note><lb/> | |||
time of the discovery. Persons who are about the<lb/> | |||
criminal now understand that they have among<lb/> | |||
them a Thief, a Robber, or a Murderer. This<lb/> | |||
cannot but give them some alarm. If no punishment <add>[+]</add> If he is suffer'd to go on snf live where he did before</note><lb/> | |||
at all is to be inflicted on him <add>[+]</add>, how<lb/> | |||
is this alarm to be quieted.</p> | |||
<p>In crimes the object of which is a pecuniary<lb/> | |||
profit, prescription ought <add>not in any</add> <del>in no</del> case to operate so<lb/> | |||
as to protect the delinquent in the enjoyment of his<lb/> | |||
ill-gotten acquisiition</p><pb/> | |||
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Punishment whether defeasible by length of Time Infi
When a crime has been committed, either the foot-bars prosecution not execution after.
person only who did it committed may remain unknown, or
the fact itself as well as the person. [Under theNOTE
name of the fact I would here include be understood such and so many circumstances
as are necessary to makebring the act in question That a man has
escaped too long already
what has
been proved to be
hs due, is no reason
why he should be
freed from it altogether.
come under the denomination of some crime.] If someth
factso much If either be unknownunsuspected it is plain [there can not
have been any prosecution.] no prosecution can have
been set on foot. If both be known then either a
prosecution may have been set on foot, or not. It
is only in case of there being no prosecution the Prescription
has ever been allowed. The rule is that
a man shall not be prosecuted after that interval
has is elapsed, not that if he has been prosecuted
and convicted, he shall not suffer.
The apprehension alarm of danger commences fromat the Provest for this innocent.
time of the discovery. Persons who are about the
criminal now understand that they have among
them a Thief, a Robber, or a Murderer. This
cannot but give them some alarm. If no punishment [+] If he is suffer'd to go on snf live where he did before</note>
at all is to be inflicted on him [+], how
is this alarm to be quieted.
In crimes the object of which is a pecuniary
profit, prescription ought not in any in no case to operate so
as to protect the delinquent in the enjoyment of his
ill-gotten acquisiition
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rationale of punishment |
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punishment whether defensible by length of time |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::ac propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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franz ludwig tribolet; ann elizabeth lind |
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