JB/030/073/001

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1828 July 24

1. Pretence false
2. Mischief

The notion under which so much employment
is given to this ceremony and such importance professed to be
attached to it – in a word the notion generally commonly professed to be entertained, is – that neither temporal punishment alone
nor temporal punishment in conjunction with such spiritual
punishment as would be attached to it were no
such ceremony employed would operate with effect sufficient
for the purpose – nor in a word with so much effect
as that with which it does operate in cases where the
ceremony is actually employed. But in truth no such
by the constituted authorities and by Judges and other men of law Barristers in
particular no such notion is in truth entertained.

For the proof of this practice one single example is sufficient.
The mischief producible f by false statement in the case
where the statement is taken for employed in forming a ground for an
law act of legislation is as infinity to one in comparison
of the mischief producible by false statement in the case where
the statement is employed in forming a ground for an act of
judicature. Yet by the House of Commons in collecting the
elicitation of those facts, which its measure of below
the part which it takes in the passing or rejecting of
the measures of legislation has for its ground no use is
made of this ceremony. In, in their opinion it contributed were to
any this were such a purpose as that in question necessary, they would with or without
the concurrence of the other branches of the Legislature employ
it: and by no one of those other branches could it such concurrence be in common
decency be refused.

After such a proof all inferior ones may without
much risk be stated as superfluous. In a pamphlet of Mr
Bentham's intituled Swear not at all others may be seen collected.† † ☞ Search how this is.

One short one is that of personation. In cases in which the property
of one person man is obtained by another in pretence of his being
the person first mentioned, the fraud thus perpetrated misdeed is stiled personation and
the punishment attached to it is death. No oath is in this case required to be taken.

Identifier: | JB/030/073/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-07-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-11
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	073	Info in main headings field	jud.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / e13
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9580
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