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<head>Punishment in alienam personam</head> | |||
<p>Of the Law were known to be <add>in this behalf</add> as it has<add>been</add> said to be,<lb/> | |||
the nation would<add>must</add> long ago have been <add><gap/> continued</add> a scene of<lb/> | |||
lust, cruelty and rapine: but it <add>happens</add> <del><gap/></del> here as it<lb/> | |||
will sometimes happen in other instances, one mischief<lb/> | |||
operates as a palliative to another: the extreme<lb/> | |||
absurdity of the Law is veiled by men's utter<lb/> | |||
ignorance of its contents.</p> | |||
<del>Let us reverse the tables</del><add>Let us turn back & look in the other side</add>. What <add>then</add> would be <note>Little danger<lb/>from the admission<lb/> | |||
of promiscuous evidence not<lb/> | |||
so great as it<lb/> | |||
seems to be</note><lb/> | |||
the mischief<add><del>danger</del></add> of admitting the testimony of <del>persons</del><add>a man</add> | |||
thus stimatized - I see none: none at least that<lb/> | |||
can for a moment stand in competition with the<lb/> | |||
mischief on the other side. <del>The <gap/></del><add>"But the</add> person so stigmatized<lb/> | |||
does not deserve to be believed?"- | |||
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Punishment in alienam personam
Of the Law were known to be in this behalf as it hasbeen said to be,
the nation wouldmust long ago have been continued a scene of
lust, cruelty and rapine: but it happens here as it
will sometimes happen in other instances, one mischief
operates as a palliative to another: the extreme
absurdity of the Law is veiled by men's utter
ignorance of its contents.
Let us reverse the tablesLet us turn back & look in the other side. What then would be Little danger
from the admission
of promiscuous evidence not
so great as it
seems to be
the mischiefdanger of admitting the testimony of personsa man
thus stimatized - I see none: none at least that
can for a moment stand in competition with the
mischief on the other side. The "But the person so stigmatized
does not deserve to be believed?"-
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rationale of punishment |
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147 |
punishment in alienam personam |
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incompetency |
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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