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10 C
Of Simple Mercantile Defraudment
Reasons
From p. 16. No 1. In order that they may be exposed to a less For the sake of exposing delinquents to a certain lesser
degree of ignominy by force of the dead letter part of the degree of ignominy by their the circumstance of their being
law itself. exposed in appearance to a greater. To be known to have been guilty
of an offence for which men are punishable
by corporal ignominy is of itself sufficient
to produce expose a man to a considerable degree of simple infamy.
It is a way which the political sanction
has of strengthening the hands of it's ally, the moral
sanction which punishes more speedily, and
upon less evidence. The advantage in this case
is expected not so much by from the punishment
itself, as from that shadow of it the image of it which the
reflected as it were text of the law is able to cast upon the offender
of by its own power and without the assistance
of the Judge. Men of The very lowest of those who classes might
are exposed to it be insensible to with it; and therefore
for this for such persons other punishments of a less delicate
texture mould are added for these. super added. Men of the highest
classes might be too exquisitely sensible: and
therefore this method is contrived for moderating
the force of it by an oblique reflection. It was seems
to have been upon nearly the same principle that the Persian
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penal code |
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of simple mercantile defraudment |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::s. lay [britannia with shield motif]]] |
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alexander mavrokordatos |
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