10. As well as ‘the crime that consists in violating the law
and departing from the right rule of reason—crime through
which man becomes so degenerate that he declares that he
is deserting the principles of human nature and becoming
vermin—there is often ‘transgression through which some-
one does harm to someone else. In the latter case, the person
who has been harmed has, in addition to the general right of
punishment that he shares with everyone else, a particular
right to seek reparation from the personwho harmed him:
and anyone else who thinks this just may also join with
the injured party and help him to recover from the offender
such damages as may make satisfaction for the harm he has
suffered.