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Show ACTS RELATING 388 Part LII. Seét. V. Nor is this mode of punifhment, how-~ ever it may have been exclaimed againlt on frequent in our law. By the infiitution offrrm/e pledge, attributed, Ithink, to Alfred, every man was made refponfible, that is, was to a certain degree punifhable, for the delinquency of every other man in the fame decennaryfi" The whole fyftem of the law on forfeitures for high treafon is built upon this principle of colleétive, or vicarious, pu- nifliment. And the only objeétion to this application of the principle in this particular cafe is, that here it is eafy to fever the father from the children, the guilty from the innocent. Corporations, where this feveration cannot be made, are often punifhed for And Hufhands, in the opinion of Hawkinsi, are anfwerahle for their wives in the pecuniary penalty infliéted by a penal fia- tute. A mafier is indiélable for a nuifance done by his fervants §; he is refponfible for his fervant in publifhing a libel H. Though a {hcrifF cannot be punifhed as for a felony, for a voluntary efcape of a felon permitted by the goaler; yet, " whe" ther the efcape be voluntary, or negli- " gent, the fheriflj may be indif'red for it " {o as to fubjeét him to a great fine and at 9 Geo. I. c. 22. f. 7. Jr 27 E132. c. 13. 29 Geo. II. c. 36. f. 9. 1 See I. p. 3. § Lord Raymond, 264. no man thinks it unjuf'r. 14.6. *5 See Blackf'rone's Commentaries, vol. 1. 117 389 Hundreds are charged for damage fuf- ‘tained in the maiming of cattle*, &c. and for robberies committed between fun and fun "l. the prefent occafion, unknown to or in- the mifdemeanors of their members. TO THE Commas. Burn on Servants, Bacon's Abridgment, tit. Mailer and p0 .)I Servant. ll lice three firong cafes, in 2 Sefii. Cafes, 33. HunC c 3 " impri« |