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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
one else therefore will act, for he cannot:
or he does not: but the exercise of these
powers was necessary to the accomplishing
of the end: if they are not exerciseddeleted text, the
end can'tquestionable reading not be accomplished: they are
not exercised: If so the end is not accom
-plished.
paragraph
But the accomplishment of that end, and the inst-
-stance in question, was one of the means.deemed
necessary ro keep a certain portion of mischief
from existinginvadingin the Society. There is it
-fore a visible probability of a certain portion
of unhappinessmischief accuracy to their veracity; which
probability perhaps is boundcommitted into act[uality]
And he is the means of hisdeleted text its accusing: Others
end his ation seeing in his punishment
the consequence of their permittingof and
manner to accrue, will therefore be
induced to take the proper measures to prevent thereof he omitted,its
accusing: He is therefore a fit object of
Punishment.
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of laws in general |
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212 |
misdemeanours of officers - magistrates |
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jeremy bentham |
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