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B6:Ch4
Sec 3
Punishment - whether defeasible by Death
events, inunder most Laws and particularly inunder our own
the obligation of making compensation has been cancelled.
At the same time compensation being the only object
in view, this being taken away punishment has
of course dropped along with it. But in these
cases as I hope soon to make appear , however
it may standby with compensation, the demand for
punishment has been not been lessened by either of the events
in question.
These are 1st the Death of the injurer: 2dly
the death of the party injured.
1st The Death of the party injurer has been deemed 1. bt The death of the damnifier
to take away the occasion ground for indeminification. The
reason that occurs is that there is nobody to give itindemnify. [Where
Had he continues where he ought to<add>have</add>given it, doubtless. But ashe is gone who ought then? Why one person rather
than another?
One may answer certainly, nobody in the case
where the offence producedin such as produces not any & are transferable profit
To answer these questions at large we must maketake But this it ought not to be - 1
1st Where the profit of the offence is pecuniary & and descends uponto his representatives.
a distiction according toin the nature off the offence.
When The offence is either attended with ano transferable
profit, a fruit transmissible to the representatives successors of
the offender or not. WhenOn An offence of the first
sort, the representative ought clearly In the first case obligation of
making compensation ought clearly to devolve on the representative
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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