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<p><hi rend='underline'>1. A <sic>burthen</sic> lies the lighter, the more it is divided.</p> | |||
<p>2. <hi rend='underline'>A <add>An unexpected</add> loss to any amount produces more pain,</hi><lb/><hi rend='underline'>than <add>an unexpected</add> gain to the same amount does pleasure.</p> | |||
<p>3. A <sic>burthen</sic> to a given amount is to be presumed<lb/>to lie equally heavy on two persons, where no difference<lb/> in their circumstances <add>can be <del>is</del> taken into the account.</add> <del>can be assigned.</del></p> | |||
<p>4. <del>The circumstances which</del> <add>The circumstances that make a loss <add>heavier</add> [or a gain] more delightful to a person are 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</hi></add> Constitutional sensibility, | |||
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present demand and intensity of expectation,<lb/> and the ratio of the gain or loss to the residue<lb/> of <del>t</del> a man's fortune.</p> | |||
<p>5. If the three other circumstances were <add>be</add> laid out of<lb/>the case, the <del>real surplus of</del> <add>most pleasure will</add> <del>would</del> be produced<lb/>upon the whole by <del>giving</del> <add>adjudging</add> the thing in dispute to<lb/><note>as between the parties themselves</note><lb/>that one of the parties whose expectations is most<lb/>intense.</p> | |||
<p>6. Taking the <del><gap/></del> <add>whole</add> community into consideration, the<lb/>most pleasure will be produced in the community<lb/>by adjudging the thing in dispute to that one<lb/>of the two parties whose expectation appears<lb/>to the community to be most intense.</p> | |||
<p>7. Now to the community that one of the parties<lb/><del>will</del> is he whose expectation will appear to be<lb/>most intense, of whom it appears most probable<lb/>that he is <add>in</add> <del>those circumstances</del> <add>that situation which</add> is acknowledges<lb/>to give title to the party who is in it in this<lb/>case in question.</p> | |||
<p>8. Now this situation is always determin<del>able</del>ed<lb/>by the <add>simple</add> matter of fact which is in the nature<lb/>of it notorious and susceptible of proof: <del>as</del> for<lb/>instance <add>that</add> the claimant is the eldest son of such an<lb/>one who is dead: or that the defendant made him such a</p> | |||
1 Compensation Axioms
1. A burthen lies the lighter, the more it is divided.
2. <hi rend='underline'>A An unexpected loss to any amount produces more pain,
than an unexpected gain to the same amount does pleasure.
3. A burthen to a given amount is to be presumed
to lie equally heavy on two persons, where no difference
in their circumstances can be is taken into the account. can be assigned.
4. The circumstances which The circumstances that make a loss <add>heavier [or a gain] more delightful to a person are 1<hi rend='superscript'>st</add> Constitutional sensibility,
present demand and intensity of expectation,
and the ratio of the gain or loss to the residue
of t a man's fortune.
5. If the three other circumstances were be laid out of
the case, the real surplus of most pleasure will would be produced
upon the whole by giving adjudging the thing in dispute to
as between the parties themselves
that one of the parties whose expectations is most
intense.
6. Taking the whole community into consideration, the
most pleasure will be produced in the community
by adjudging the thing in dispute to that one
of the two parties whose expectation appears
to the community to be most intense.
7. Now to the community that one of the parties
will is he whose expectation will appear to be
most intense, of whom it appears most probable
that he is in those circumstances that situation which is acknowledges
to give title to the party who is in it in this
case in question.
8. Now this situation is always determinableed
by the simple matter of fact which is in the nature
of it notorious and susceptible of proof: as for
instance that the claimant is the eldest son of such an
one who is dead: or that the defendant made him such a
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