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Compensation.
individual thing that was taken lost is restored : it may be
termed restitution in value, when not the same thing is
returned, but a sum of money or something of equal
value.
Restitution I have called a part of compensation : it
is plain it can never be the whole. For but
the very substance that was taken be restoredbe returned;it is plain the
are not by varius means in the same state plight they would have been if
it never had been taken : the party damage has constantly lost
and the offender has probably gained the use of the thing
for the time, whatever it be, during which it lay in
his hands Before in order then for the party damaged
to receive full and adequatecompensation, he must receive
the thing itself that was taken a restitution in value
for the use of it during the time in question.
The same observation holds equally good with respect
to the use of a sum of money.
Benefits that result from compensation in all cases. 1st to the
in part to prevent public
Now then whether the damage of the offence have or have
not beenbe not converted to the
profit of the offender, there is one
good effect [which] will universally follow from compensation.
This is is the concurring with the
preventative efficacy of punishment in lessening thethis
pain of apprehension[ . ]marginal note textwhich persons in generalother men are apt to fail
at the observation of the suffering of the party damaged,
and the apprehensionexpectation of suffering the themselves. They
know that in the way of Prevention the efficacy of Punishment
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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