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The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal September 15 - 30 1908

1908

The full gratification of natural resentment demands three things—the personal suffering of the wrong-doer in the same degree as the wrong-sufferer ; such suffering inflicted or instigated by the wrong-sufferer; and knowledge on the part of the wrong-doer that his punishment comes from the person ho has wronged. [...] Throughout the ages blood-feuds have carried and sword into the homes of the innocent for the fault of the guilty and even yet in many parts of the continent there are family quarrels and vendettas in which the original offence of one man has caused the death of scores. [...] The first of these was the possibility of the punishment of the wrong-doer being passed to a substitute. [...] to sacrifice to one of the tutelary deities of the city a number of the sons of the most eminent citizens; but a practice had gradually been established of avoiding the families of the nobles and of sacrificing children reared for the purpose. [...] Founded on the natural right of the wrong-sufferer to satisfy his feeling of resentment by inflicting corporal chastisement upon the wrong-doer it rose to the higher conception that is the duty of the sovereign power of the State to restrain wrong-doing by punising crime.
law
Pages
16
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120178
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The Criminal Law Journal of India Journal September 15 - 30 1908
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