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--(a) If the accused is innocent, he may not plead guilty, as isclear. --Having discussed the various kinds of injustice that arecommitted in involuntary commutations, we now pass on to the study ofthose injustices that are done in voluntary transactions (see 1748). is arm amputated inorder to get larger alms; a boy may not be castrated in order to givehim a better sing On the contrary, he who makes a vow, intending not to fulfill it, vowsvalidly but illicitly, since he really intends to oblige himself, buthe sins by his purpose not to keep his vow (see 1883).

the expense); but if there is a good reason to presume that he intendedan entire vow, or a severable vo me circumstance, as when the marriage debt is unjustlyrefused or necessary nourishment is not taken. The effect may bepredicted with certainty if the cause is so determined to one coursethat its result is invariable (e. le, if there is a real resolve and the rightmeans are employed, such as rooming apart and concentration on otherand higher things.