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C Simple Personal Injuries

Damage directly by intentional--obliquely-intentional

. . . another person or upon his standing aside to avoid being run over by a horse.

The damage to this party may be said to be directly intentional when it is the prospect of producing it that appears to have been the inducement of the offender to do this act: obliquely intentional, when the damage was in contemplation, yet that the inducement to the doing of the act was not the production of such damage, but some other want which as it happened drew with it, and beforehand appeared more or less likely to draw with it, [the production of such damage as a consequence of the same cause.

Thus if your motive for instance in kicking the man whose leg you broke was to the pleasure of putting him to so much pain, or in general the doing him so much mischief this want of his suffering such mischief was directly intentional on your part: but if the case was that you did not care whether you put him in pain or questionable reading, and your only inducement for kicking him was to make him clear the way, the production of the damage was but obliquely intentional.

Personal Damage which is directly intentional may be either ultimately intentional or intermediately that is questionable reading intentional. It is ultimately intentional when the consideration of the very pain produced by it is the inducement to produce it; intermediately or questionable reading intentional when this inducement to produce it is but some other questionable reading to the production of

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	073	Main Headings	law in general
Folio number	079	Info in main headings field	simple personal injuries
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / / / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23919
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