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Compensation.

is disbursed: but in such small inequalities the difference
of sensibility is not worth attending to. Let
us ut a case then at once in which it will plainly
appear to be material. The fortunes of the parties
are

The fortunes of the parties are each £800
The damage is £400
The author of the damage has been already made to pay £200
The remaining the amount then of His fortune then is but £700 600
While that of the party dam his competitor is still 800
There remains to be paid by one or other of them 200
Now this £200 here is 1/3 of 600
Whereas it is but 1/4 of 800

The loss therefore of this same sum of £200
would now produce 4 degrees of pain
in the author of the damage, at the
same time that it would produce but
3 in his competitor.[a]

NOTE

[a] There is a remarkable instance in which the force
of this reasoning seems to be have been recognised by the English Legislature. By the Common Law, the occupant of a House
in which a fire began which communicated itself to
other Houses, was deemed responsible (on the ground general principle of imputed negligence)
deemed responsible for the damage done to such
other

Identifier: | JB/100/197/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 100.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	100	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	197	Info in main headings field	compensation
Image	004	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f21 / f22 / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::v g [sic] propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	32213
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