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16 C

Of Simple Mercantile Defraudment

Question II

From p. 12 No 1 Why the Judge in the case of simple mercantile
frauds is intrusted with the option of applying so
severe a part of the punishment as that which the
consists of corporal ignominy? From To p. 10. No 1

From p. 11. No 1 It is a maxim dictated by necessity, that what a
man cannot pay for in his purse he must be made to pay for
in his person. The converse of it might seem agreeable to
reason and utility; viz; that what he can pay for in his
purse, he ought not to be made to pay for in his person.
This would undoubtedly be just without exception were
it not for two considerations which must always be attended
to. 1. The Interests of Morality. And 2. The Affections
of the People. Were riches to be admitted uniformly to excuse
a man from every other kind of punishment, were a poor
Man in all cases made to suffer a punishment which,
were he if rich, he would not be made to suffer, a rule of
this sort might have a bad effect in the character of a moral
lesson: It would be as much as to say, "Get Wealth, and
"You need not be in fear of fear punishment." Wealth will at any rate have more






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Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

1-2

Box

071

Main Headings

penal code

Folio number

156

Info in main headings field

of simple mercantile defraudment

Image

004

Titles

Category

copy/fair copy sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f13 / f14 / f15 / f16

Penner

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

jeremy bentham

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

23559

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