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CERTAINTY. in general.
Begin with recapitulating the contents of the former Books
Respects 1st Law 2d Fact
Certainty in Penal Legislation regards respects 3 objects 1st That all persons guilty of the
act prohibited suffer the punishment that is denounced. and risible 2d That none suffer it but
as are so: 3d That of these none suffer more than is denounced. those who use the proper objects of so much as risible <add>denounced, + do not</add>
suffer [any] more.
The maxim "Better that one guilty should escape than one innocent suffer, is to be met with in Fortescue de 62
+ Whatever Forms & regulations of Practise do not tend to one or other of these ends are & superfluous.
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