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But this Punishment is not any punish-
-ment whatsoever: it is a Pun-
-ishment: either fixed, or at least circum-
-scribed within certain limits.
paragraph
Here then is one species of offence that of
contributing to a Punishment on quantity
or quality not legal.
paragraph
And these ends are not to be [employed]
contributed to by anymeans: not only by a par-
-ticular course of means, which as being
the P, deemed the best upon the whole +the
Law has marked out for that purpose:
The powers given him are cut and fashioned
to that course.+ is the only one the Law has thought proper to allow of either a Nor to a judge of what he is doing, they must with him: It is nothard=it in something to follow
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But he may offend # also by more non-feasance; he may offend by not taking upon him
to exercise powers which he is permitted to
exercise : in such case it appears, he is
not only permitted to exercise them, but con-
-joined. He needed not perhapsto have exercised
them if he had not chosen: but he has
engagedto execute them: The Law depends
upon him to
exercising them; if he had not
undertaken it, some one else would. The Law would have committed them to some
but to trusting to him it has not: that some
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misdemeanours of officers - magistrates |
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