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Of Theft or Stealing

When he could not have got it by any industry
he was master of, so that were he to get it at
all it must be by theft or some such dishonest
practise. The for The greater part of the thefts
that are committed seem to come under the former
case: to avoid the trouble of working men taken to
the more operation of stealing. The punishment
of being obliged to work is more particularly
suited to a man who steals through idleness:
in the way of deteriment as being galling him in a part in which
he is particularly certain of being by in
this way of information as tending to correct his
obnoxious ^ disposition habit by the opposite habit its contrarys. As to those
who steal through covetousness, for their case
pecuniary punishment is the punishment most
particularly adapted: and it is on this account
that so much of the punishment as
in labour is allowed to be commuted for
money.

Quest II

- Why the quantum of the punishment is
made to vary with the value of the thing stolen.

Reasons

In order that every article of the offence

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	047	Info in main headings field	of theft or stealing
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17 / f18 / f19 / f20
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23450
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