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Punishment in alienam perforiam Random Punisht
2. Forfeiture in
case of Deodand
should pay them. So far was in order. But
why to go to anotherresort to any other fund that the man's own property.
Was he the poorer for having died a suddenviolent death,
than if he had died a natural one? or by for dying
by the effect of a thing in motion, than if he had
died by the a fall from a thing at rest? And if
after all he had nothing to pay for himself, could not
the parish, or the hundred or the next Abbey have
paid for him?
I would not swear but the sages who invented
this notable institution thought might think to do a spite to
the thing, the Waggon the ship or whatever it
was by making it forfeited: as the Athenians
exterminated the stone that had fallen uponstruck a
man and killed him: that is tookcarried it out of their
country & flungthrew it into another. Many a politic
institution, which the Lawyer admires extolls with humble
deferencereverence, has had no better ground.
The next instance of Random punishment
which I would give consists in the exclusion put upon
Testimony - I would
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