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C 3
Of Semi-public Offences in General.
to the fund, by which the common property of the Neighbourhood
is upheld: the district by which the road, the bridge, the aqueduct, the
church, (or whatever it be) is kept in repair: so much as regards the
consequential damage will commonly fall principally to the share
of Individuals: of such Individuals to wit who happens to have
sustained a special damage by reason of the mischief done to that
article of common property which is in question. But the former are apt to be the more conspicuous on the score of irreplaceability & consequential damage The distinction
between ordinary articles and such as are irreplaceable is of more
particular use here than with regard to such articles as are the property
of an individual. The impractibility of replacing the article
is more apt indeed in this case to regard the time than the
thing itself. A bridge, a road, a ferry-boat, an aqueduct can
always be replaced or repaired at the long run; though it may
require a considerable length of time to accomplish that effect:
during which interval a great deal of consequential damage may
have been incurred. In some cases however the thing may chance
to be absolutely irreplaceable: particularly when it happens to be
some rare and ornamental work of Art.
NOTE
Who for instance could
make sure of finding a second Falconet to replace the statue of
Peter the Great at Petersburgh? Or a second Pigal to replace
that of Louis the 15th at Paris? To
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of semi-public offences in general |
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[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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