SANCTIONS
"The Post" is indebted to a correspondent for the following extract from the late Sir John Salmond's book on Jurisprudence (1907): — "The instrument of coercion employed by any regulative system is called a sanction, and any rule of right pupported by such means is said to be sanctioned. Thus, physical force, in the various methods of its application, is the sanction applied by the State in the administration of justice. Censure, ridicule, contempt, are the sanctions by which society (as opposed to the State) enforces the rules of morality. War is the last and most formidable of the sanctions, which in the society of nations maintain the law of nations. The term sanction is derived from Roman Law. The sanctio was originally that part of a statute which established a penalty or made other provision in respect of the disregard of its injunctions. By an easy transition it has come to mean the penalty, itself." .
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 10
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156SANCTIONS Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 142, 12 December 1935, Page 10
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