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Of  circumstances influencing the demand for punishment
1
There are four five ways in which a circumstance
may have an influence in any case on the  of demand for
1
Criminative cir-
-cumstances
any act punishment. 1. by being one of a certain number
of circumstances which must all concur before
the consequences of the act can involve any that de-
-gree of mischief to which it is thought  right to  the punishment in question. These may be termed crimina-
-tive circumstances, or circumstances constitutive
of the offence. If any of them be wanting, the  Without the punishment in question or a part of it is groundless. To p. 4. at top
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From p. 4. No 1
3. By taking away or outweighing(a) the adding to the neat amount of the mis-
2
Circumstances of
aggravation
 justification
-chief of an act which otherwise would upon the whole be already mischievous. These may
be termed justificative or exculpative circumstances; circumstances or grounds circumstances of aggravation justifi-
-cation or exculpation.
4. By adding to the mischief of an act already subtracting in part from that amount
Circumstances of
aggravation causation 
mischievous. These may be termed aggravating circumstances; circumstances or aggra- of extenuation
or  vation grounds of aggravation.
5. By subtracting from the mischi (a) neat a- taking it away altogether: these may
Circumstances of
extenuation justification
-mount of the mischief of an act which at any rate
be termed  circumstances of justification.
is mischievous. These may be termed extenuative circumstances:
circumstances or grounds of aggra extenuation.] To p. 4 
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NOTE.
(a) It is to be  observed that the
The neat amount of the mischief produced
by any offence may be  subtracted from or ta-
-ken away in either of two ways: 1. by subtracting 
from or taking away the mischief of the offence: 2dly
by overbalancing it by  some greater degree of good.
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