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C 1
Offences against the Dead.
What is meant by an offence against the dead. It is evident at first mention of it that
this phrase is not strictly a proper one. A dead
man himself can not be is out of the reach
of suffering: he can not be the object of an
offence. It is used only for shortness: instead of
saying offences which affect the living in virtue
of the relation they stand in to the dead. It is an a
offence branch of that division of offences which affects apply
a man in the way of themselves to that degree of sort of condition which is constituted. family relationship. in by
man in virtue of the relation he bears in point
of affinity which he stands to other men.
It is an idea we have all along kept held
in up to view, that a man may be affected by an injury
done to another, his friend as well as by one offer'd
immediately to himself. In general there is no occasion
to consider these two lots of suffering as independent mischiefs;
because the same lot of punishment compensation that cures the
one, cures the other; and the same lot of punishment
that provides against the one, provides against
the other. But when the person who is the immediate
object of the injury is no more this is
no longer the case: the disappearance of that which
would otherwise be the principal mischief, gives
room for the other to shew itself on an independent
footing. The shaft which is levelled at the shadow
of my your friend makes leaves no impression upon that shadow:
it flies on however with undiminished force, and
fastens upon you.
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Identifier: | JB/071/040/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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penal code |
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040 |
offences against the dead |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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