27 April 1805

Evidence

Ch.1 Ends

'.3. Procedure branch

Particular Ends

We are now prepared for the [...?] /[...?]/ to be an explanation and denomination of three particular direct ends - the three principal branches of the object already described under the name of the general and direct end of the system of procedure.

1. Punishment, though by /of and in, and by/ itself an evil, is not incapable of producing nor does it fail of sometimes producing, a clear ballance of good, viz: by the subsequent prevention of offences, and consequently /thence/ of the mischief of offences, of the same sort as the individual act of delinquency to which in each instance it is applied. In so far as it is /thus becomes/ a good - by the act by which it is administered, a service is rendered, and in so far as the rendering of that service is prescribed and predicted[?] by substantive law it may be said to be due[?]. First particular direct end or object and function of procedure or justice - providing for the application /administrations/ of punishment where due. First principal branch of the System of procedure - the penal branch.