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42.

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Of Compensation.
1. Compensation
answers the purpose
of punishment --
will answer the purpose of punishment; but punishment
will not answer the purpose of compensation. By compensation
therefore, the two great ends of Justice are both
answered at a time: by punishment, only one.

2. -- better even
than punishment
itself.
2. What is disposed of in the way of compensation
answers the purpose in many cases even in a better manner
than the same sum disposed of professedly for the sole
purpose of punishment; for if a man is to incur a certain
loss, he will suffer more to think that his adversary is to
reap the profit than if the profit were to be reaped by
any other indifferent party; for instance the public treasury.

3. The public can
better afford than an
individual even to bear
a loss.
3. The public can better afford even to bear a loss, than any
individual. 1. In an individual the loss would produce a greater senation
than in the public even though it were expected. By breaking
down a loss into impalpable portions, the pressure of it is lessened upon the
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Note.
practice is comformable to the above rules. If the rules be right
this is not to be wondered at: since all systems of Law that exist
hitherto, are pieces of patch work made up at different times upon precipitate
and partial Views.

Identifier: | JB/098/042/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 98.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	098	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	042	Info in main headings field	of compensation
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f41 / f42 / f43 / f44
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::myears [lion with crown emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline fox
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Notes public		ID Number	31650
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