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C
Of Co-Offenders
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person intended to be suborned shall win: in case
it shall not happen, he shall lose.
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It is evident therefore that a an even wager
-- which is more
than as strong again
as that created by
hiring a reward.
operates with at least twice (a) the force of a reward or hire to the
amount of the sum to be gained by him
who win the wager.
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NOTE
[(a) Twice] In fact it operates with more than twice that force: since it
is worse for a man to lose a given sum than simply not to gain it.
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It is evident also that every wager so laid
Every wager con-
-necting gain with
an obnox-
-ious event is
subornation: to wit
either culpable or
criminal
is on the part of one of the persons concerned an
act of subornation: heedless, and therefore culpable,
if he was not aware of the tendency it has to pro-
-duce the obnoxious event: advised and therefore cri-
-minal if he was aware of such a tendency. To p. 13. No 2
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Among co-offenders those are princi-
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Principal offen-
-ders, who
-pal offenders to on whom the natural profit of
the offence operates efficaisously in the character of a self-regarding motive
efficaisously disposing them to take the part
they eventually take in toward the production of the obnox-
-ious event.
In the case of different crimes this na-
-tural profit is of a different nature and may
fall to persons of different descriptions: the appel-
-lation of principal offenders will accordingly fall to
persons of different descriptions.
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penal code |
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of co-offenders |
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jeremy bentham |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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