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1820 Sept 20

In Answer to Mora

States there is no such Libel Law All

All over the field of Penal Law it is good as far as it
operates, where the punishment is death: a punishment invented
to glut vengeance and render unjust condemnation irremediable
and exclude justice by destroying evidence, good, but
why? Only because there ought to be no such punishment as
destruction of life. I

In cases punished capitally where the defendant is believed
by them not to have committed the act, perjury being regarded
in the instance of every Juryman whose opinion
agrees not with that of the majority Jurymen in a capitally
punished case are placed between perjury and murder.
They begin to prefer the perjury and they do well: being so
continually compelled by Law to commit perjury to no purpose
it would be weakness to scruple to commit it to so good
a purpose.

In "Swear not at all" you may see how by torture Lawyers
force men whom they find honest to commit perjury.— but
you cannot see without coming here to see, with what solemnity,
with what unction pious Judges who have just been
producing the perjury conjure Jurors not to forget the regard
due to theis oaths.

No Jury in civil causes: Think not that of this reasoning
is the onlysupport ground: it e has a compleatly adequate support in
experience. In England it is by a single stated Judicatory the Law
Chancellors meet causes of the greatest importances not decided:
and L Chancellors corrupt enough in their way we have
at all times: yet in the form of procedure is such as it
would might of the Moral object had been to render right
: yet at no time has it been so much or
started short on that judicatory the , so far by
defend upon the judicatory is less than in any of those other
judicatories which no other one Judge with a harder an occassional accompaniment of
Jurymen or four Judges.

Identifier: | JB/013/024/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 13.
Date_1	1820-09-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	013	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field	in answer to mora
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	4473
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