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1823 August 14
Constitutional Code

But he can in all cases prevent any such punishment from
being inflicted. He can at pleasure divest the decision of the Jury of all
effect the decision. of a Jury upon pretence that He can do
this and in countries where the pretended excellence of the laws
is not loudly trumpeted as in the daily habit of doing so – not
only merely on the most frivolous pretexts, but what is worse – and
has been the effrontery of lawyer and the lame stupidity blind stupid patron of
non lawyers on grounds which by their own declaration have no relation to the merits.
Thus it stands the matter in penal cases: and in non-penal cases stiled civil, as
they are compleatly at this case. By falshood and nonsense
in an infinite variety of forces they have been in the habit
of giving success either to the plaintiff's side or the defendants, to which whichever it has best suited their own purposes
to give it.

Of a road such as that here in question, if a watchman
be useful in any one part so is he must he be in every other: accordingly
under the system here proposed, in no part of
his corner is the of it Judge the left destitute of the benefit of
the safeguard which it belongs to the controul power of the Jury in
so far as it is useful to afford. Of whatever point a Judge
has cognizance, of the same point a Jury has conjunct concomitant
cognizance.

Identifier: | JB/034/112/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.
Date_1	1823-08-14	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-11
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	112	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10386
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