JB/030/072/001

Click Here To Edit

1828 July 24

What It remains to be shown is – how and what use is
made of the ceremony of an oath: and in what degree this
ceremony with its machinery is not only necessary but sub subservient but
indispensably necessary to the accomplishment of the system
of profitable imposture.

Exceptions excepted of which presently, whenever in every case in which it
has been the intention of govern the constituted authorities that
wilful falshood should be abstained from, and pu eventual
punishment attached accordingly to the utterance of it, the
course that has been taken has been to attached the punishment not
simply to the act by which the mischief the evil effect – the mass of suffering
in question has been produced but to that in conjunction
with the acts by which a part is borne in a certain ceremony
stiled swearing or taking an oath.

Of The advantage gained by this complicated mode of proceeding procedure in
addition preference to the simple one mode, the principal use is this.
Were it said to the suitor in question you are on this occasion at liberty
to make false statements to any effect and amount you
please, people men in general non-lawyers might to a greater
or less degree be shocked, and a suspicion entertained by
them that men in power, and Judges in particular were not
altogether so honest and well meaning as it is their wish to be,
as they say of themselves and one another that they are
and as it is desirable they should be: whereas on the other hand when
for the producing the licence in question the means course employed
is a purely negative one namely the omitting to much in
the case in question, to apply the punishment actually applied
in other similar cases, the supposition may be – that in those
last mentioned cases, there exists not that same or any other demand
for punishment in that same or any other shape, and
that such being actually the case in effect such it is in their opinion also.

Identifier: | JB/030/072/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-07-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-8
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	jud.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / e12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9579
Box Contents