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Punishment in alienam perforam.
His memory shall endure at least as as long as these
pages will find readers.
These mild and considerate measures form a beautiful
contrast with the precipitate & caustice
expedients entached on us by barborous legislators.
—
If this should be thought an institution fit to stand
I will propse and improvement upon it: Ahab
hath served Baal a little, John shall serve
him much.
It is not a tax. It is not a measure of self-
defence. I know what it is if this thing
in which there is the least particleshadow of possible utility.
— Bar Y.
The case of Bail inmay serve at first <add>sight to be</add>great measure precisely parallel with
the case above supposed:except that the tribunal wch the tribunal which
inflicts the punishment is different & the modein that case is the domestic, is in this case the political,
of punishment in different Body in This however is not the case. The punishment which
the Bail may come to suffer, he suffers for his
own default. It is therefore a punishment if the same. It not of the
in ious punishment inflicted by consent of
the party punished. amA man is commited to
prison suppose for a crime, a felony. You
go to the judge and say, let this man out, let
me have charge of him, and if he does not
surrender himself to take his trial, so that he
may be punishedhanged if guilty, I
for him: that is in a pecuniary way
In virtue of this
such a Sum. The Judge settles the
By this transaction you are said to have become Bail for my appearance. The consequence the consequence is If I do not appear, the sum is levied on you.
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141 |
rationale of punishment |
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139 |
punishment in alienam personam |
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004 |
note / deodands / bail |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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caroline vernon |
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