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[Gary A.]

 

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and any other person, who finds it just, may also join with him that is injured, and assist him in recovering from the offender so much as he may make satisfaction for the harm he has suffered.

 

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Chase Around The Windmill
The Chieftains

 

[Gary A.]

 

[limr11]

From these two distinct rights, the one of punishing the crime for restraint, and preventing the like offence, which right of punishing is in every body;

 

[Gary A.]

 

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the other of taking reparation, which belongs only to the injured party, comes it to pass that the magistrate, who by being magistrate hath the common right of punishing put into his hands,

 

[Gary A.]

 

[Gary A.]

 

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can often, where the public good demands not the execution of the law, remit the punishment of criminal offences by his own authority, but yet cannot remit the satisfaction due to any private man for the damage he has received.

 

[Gary A.]

 

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That, he who has suffered the damages has a right to demand in his own name, and he alone can remit:

 

[Gary A.]

 

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the damnified person has this power of appropriating to himself the goods or service of the offender, by right of self-preservation, as every man has a power to punish the crime, to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of preserving all mankind, and doing all reasonable things he can in order to that end:

 

[Gary A.]