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 no more power than what every man naturally may have over another.

§. 10. Beides the crime which conits in violating the law, and varying from the right rule of reaon, whereby a man o far becomes degenerate, and declares himelf to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to ome peron or other, and ome other man receives damage by his trangreion: in which cae he who hath received any damage, has, beides the right of punihment common to him with other men, a particular right to eek reparation from him that has done it: and any other peron, who finds it jut, may alo join with him that is injured, and ait him in recovering from the offender o much as may make atisfaction for the harm he has uffered.

§. 11. From thee two ditinct rights, the one of punihing the crime for retraint, and preventing the like offence, which right of punihing is in every body; the other of taking reparation, which belongs only to the injured party, comes it to pas that the magitrate, who by being magitrate hath the common right of punihing put into his hands, can often, where the public good demands not the execution of the law, remit the punihment of criminal offences by his own authority, but yet cannot remit the atisfaction due to any private man for the damage