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This Page Has Not Been Transcribed Yet CRIT JUR CRIM all-powerful in mischief. This owing to the conduct here censured that the fabric of the Common Law is [x/is a most] almost where where in that tottering con dition in which [it stands at general] one who ex amines it closely can not find to see it stands [x/??] condition is tottering, that learn [/in any fact] any where can a man repose under it its in security
[x/ That ... the design of the present [/book] work appears to conflict? with that [much] more extensive design of which it is a part, it may be of use to shew how the business of punishment connects with the rest of the business of [xxxx] Government.
As the happiness of the community is the ??? greatest quantity of ??? pleasure that can be [/procured] ??? in it [/ought to be] is [/perpetual task] the ??? of [/Government] do are ??? and from the instrument p/in fact the only instrument] it has to work with.
It is the general business of Legislation [/Govenrment] to produce pleasure: but when the pleasure produced by any act of Government is produced not fr its own sake, but fo rthe [/purpose] of producing [/matter of] greater lot of pleasure it is called [u/reward].
On the other hand it is the ... general purpose? of Government to avert pain. But when ... any occasion may be [/the very ] means of averting greater pain or what comes to the same thing producing a more equal pleasure, it becomes its business as much as to produce pain even in ... stiled punishment.
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punishment |
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263 |
crit. jur. crim |
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003 |
punishment - talio - where inapplicable / stare decisis |
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recto |
d101 / d102 / d103 / d104 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::[gr with crown] propatria [britannia motif]]] |
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