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It seems however under a confused notion
of hardship (I say it seems for where no reason
is given assigned conjecture is the only recourse) it
seems then to be have been under a confused notion of
hardship that a practice has arisen of framing marking out
marking up a lot of procedure the course of procedure in such
manner a way that impunity is the frequent
and in many circumstances the inevitable
result of it. Distress is A forfeiture pecuniary penalty is
provided: a forfeiture alone without imprisonment:
and for the levying of that forf penalty, Distress
and Distress alone is appointed in the first
instances: in failure of sufficient Distress, or
in failure of all Distress then and then only
imprisonment is appointed to be employd. But
before imprisonment can be inflicted applied this
failure of distrainable property must previously
have been legally ascertained: and to ascertain it in
this manner there is but one way, which is
to issue a warrant for the levy making of such
Distress. All This contrivance for
supporting
combination of
pecuniary penalties with
eventual imprisonment
combination of pecuniary and corporal penalties is perfectly legal and regular.
The only objection to it is that in general in the most
common case that
can happen
it is not incapable
of answering either purpose. Not that of levying
the penalty, because the man has no property nothing
distrainable that can be distrained: which is the case
of all that are not Housekeepers, as also of all
that are, where the amount of the forfeiture is
greater than the inconvenience of removing. Not
that of imprisonment: for before the Warrant of
Distress can be returned, the Bird is flown. In
all
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Identifier: | JB/150/625/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	625	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / f196
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50846
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