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C 11. Of obstinate Waste or Usurpation. Destruction or Endamagement .
that the punishment shall outweigh the profit
of the Offence. [See Ch: (Proposition) Rule. the Punishment
for wrongfully wasting or usurping a
thing of the same sort bona fide or under colour
of title would be the being obliged to pay the
price set upon it by the Judge, which probably
might be no more than the ordinary
marketable price. On the other hand the profit
of the offence if the thing were wasted or destroyed
would be ordinarily the pleasure of malevolence
resulting from the thought of the pain
of privation you will suffer at the thoughts
of being deprived of the thing in question.
Now when the marketable price of the thing
is comparatively small the pleasure of malevolence
may much more than outweigh the
pain of paying it. You have a gold ring
for instance the materials and workmanship
of which are worth a guinea; but it contains
the hair of your deceased wife or mistress. You would
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