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1823. Septr. 4
Constitutional Code.

Excusable the sufferers of the torture.
Not so the imposers and their supporters.

If 2. Solemn promise exacted of From each one of the Eleven
Jurymen an exaction of solemn promise exacted engaging to not to consent
to any verdict which is not conformable to his own opinion persuasion.

3. As often as any such diff on the between one part of the number and the
remainder any such difference of opinion persuasion has place as that
abide on the one part a persuasion has place that a the verdict expressed
by a certain form set of words is conformable to truth
and tru justice while on the part the opposite persuasion has
place, it has been rendered in the p the one or the other part
matter of inevitable necessity to declare in the terms
of such verdict an opinion in a state of irreconcilable repugnance compleatly repugnant to the promise
so to that same promise on that same occasion previously made.

4. Under the notion of giving an additional binding force to that
same promise the power force of the religious sanction called in and
endeavoured to be applied: to wit by the words So help me
God.

5. For securing the violation of the promise so made
and so sanctioned as above, in other words for imposing
upon the takers of the oath each individual by whom the promise the necessity of eventually
violating it, death in a lingering and excruciating form
provided – provided by a sort of virtual law: and that habitually
in part enforced: namely till the Jurymen, the number
from one to eleven, shall by this means have been induced compelled
to accede to a verdict expressed conceived on the terms which by some
one of them has been proposed.

The means Those means instruments of compulsion in question being in their its nature
so irresistible, scarcely is has any instance come to light be
known in which the continually impending punishment
has ever been inflicted.

Identifier: | JB/034/146/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 34.
Date_1	1823-09-04	Marginal Summary Numbering	68-70
Box	034	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	146	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3 / c1 / d20 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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