BOOK 2, CHAPTER 21On The Sharing of PunishmentsI. How punishment may pass to those who have shared in the crimeII. A community, or its rulers, may be held responsible for the crime of a subject if they know of it and do not prevent it when they could and should prevent itIII. Likewise a community, or its rulers, may be held responsible for refuge afforded to those who have done wrong elsewhereIV. Such responsibility rests upon a community or its rulers unless they either punish or surrender the guilty parties, as is shown by examplesV. The rights of suppliants belong to the unfortunate, and not to the guilty, with exceptionsVI. Nevertheless suppliants are to be protected pending the hearing of their case; under what law the hearing is to be conductedVII. How subjects share in the crimes of their rulers, and members of a community in those of the community; and how the punishment of a community differs from that of individualsVIII. How long the right of inflicting punishment upon a community continuesIX. Whether punishment may be shared without sharing the crimeX. The distinction between that which is inflicted directly and' that which comes as a consequenceXI. The distinction between what is done owing to the occasion of a crime and what is done owing to the cause of the crimeXII. That, properly speaking, no one may be justly punished for another's wrong, and whyXIII. That children may not be punished for the sins of their parentsXIV. Answer is made concerning the acts of God with regard to the children of the wickedXV. Much the less are other relatives to be punishedXVI. Nevertheless to children and relatives of the guilty something may be denied which they otherwise could have had; instances thereofXVII. Subjects may not properly be punished for a wrong committed by their kingXVIII. Individuals, who have not consented thereto, cannot be punished for the wrong-doing of the communityXIX. Heirs are not subject to punishment as such; reasons thereforXX. Nevertheless heirs may be subject to punishment if this has passed over into an obligation of another kind
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