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Cases unmeet
Chapter X
Cases unmeet for Punishment
Punishment, as has been already observed, being
itself a mischief, an evil upon the principle of utility
ought not to be admitted employed but where it promises to
exclude some mischief. It is plain
therefore that in the following case it ought not to
be admitted. 1. When it is groundless. 2. Where
it must be inefficacious. 3. Where it is unprofitable
or too expensive. 4. Where it is needless where the
mischief may being to be presented at a or
of itself without it.
1 Case in which punishment is groundless.
Punishment is groundless where there never
has been any mischief, as the act such as some
occasions might be mischievous or disagreeable
being the ; or where it is
them by the food, as when any thing
is done in the way of precaution
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