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14 C Refusal of Trusts

-sions may have been that have happen'd for the
discharge of the duties of the trust , and however
various the mischiefs may have been that have
ensued from the non-discharge of these duties
on those several occasions . This is no longer the
case where a man has once signified his
acceptance : every instance of neglect which occurs
upon every distinguishable occasion is commonly
enough made consider'd as a separate offence , and the ground of a distinct and separate
accusation .

Insufficiency of the compulsive punishment with regard to first omissions offences previous to acceptance . Thise distinction though conformable to thus <add>apt to be observed in</add>
practise is not conformable to utility. The compulsive
process operates applied to compel an
acceptance can act but very imperfectly in the
character of a punishment . As the duration Since from the very nature of it and
consequently the magnitude of it depends altogether
upon the choice of the offender himself it will commonly
amount to nothing : at any rate it applies
not to any of those mischiefs which may have
happen'd in consequence of omissions to
acceptance : so that as to so much the offender
may reap with impunity the profit of his offence
These considerations it behoves the legislator to have

Identifier: | JB/072/085/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	085	Info in main headings field	refusal of trusts
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	alexander mavrokordatos
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23702
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