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Of Forfeiture of Reputation.
have already had occasion to explain discuſs in treating of the moral sanction of which it forms the substance. from which it derives its origin All that remains for us to do in this place is to state the various contrivances by which the political sanction magistrate has gone about to modify its
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part of it be derived immediately out of persons, it is derived out of the services of a few persons and those persons (and very frequently the those services due from each person) determinate and certain. But a man's reputation is derived immediately out of persons: out of the services of persons; out of any services of any persons whatsoever: out of the services of as many persons be they who they may as choose to render yield him any. This is a stock which the political magistrate can never perhaps by any one operation nor indeed by any number of operations of any kind be certain of exhausting: much leſs by any such at least in particular not by that vaguest vague and feeble operations as those are by which an offender is commonly understood to have been made to incur the forfeiture of reputation, that is the punishment of infamy.
If there be it is that punishment that which, if the vulgar tradition is to be depended upon was inflicted by Rich. III on Jane Shore: the direct prohibiting of all persons from rendering to the offender any kind of service. But this is that in other words the punishment of starving. The same punishment has sometimes been denounced in other countries where being strictly executed it has been as it could not but be attended with that effect. of the Allegiances. </pb>
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