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Police Bill Observations
II Board
Surveyors Account
he has no such property, or not enough of it
for the purpose, or has taken measures for
sending it off conveying it away out of the reach of justice, imprisonment
alone and not distress will as naturally
be the mode employ'd in such a case:
but if, although he has some sizable property
he has not enough to cover the Debt, or has
conveyd away taken measures for conveying
away so much of it that t what remains accessible
to justice is not sufficient to cover the
whole of the debt, it is then equally evident that
neither mode is adequate to the purpose without
the other. It is then in this case as necessary to employ
both modes processes together, as it is in the two other
cases respectively to employ either: so often as
the law refuses them to be employd the faculty of the employing them together, so
far it gives a licence to a knave dishonest man to triumph
in his dishonesty. Under a clause to this theeffect
proposed, when the Law Magistrate has recovered for the public
so much of the embezzler's property defaulter's debt as
the accessible part of the defaulter's property
will produce, if then he has more other
property not susceptible of being seized and
the fear of longer aversion to a continuance of the imprisonment is strong enough
to induce him to pr rest make restitution
of that remainder, it shall the public in that case will recover
it: if, having it in his power to make
restitution, he at first refuses it, he lies in
jail prison till he comes to a better temper,
and whatever may be the hardship he suffers in this during that time, being no
more
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Identifier: | JB/150/491/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. |
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150 |
police bill |
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491 |
police bill |
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001 |
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jeremy bentham |
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50712 |
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