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must fine all. You may accept indeed legitimate
excuses: but if you do, you must enquire rigorously strictly
into the truth of them, otherwise you thereat open give a premium for
a door falshood to falshood and corrupt the morals of the
people.

22 2. Precipitation With this heavy expence you purchase besides
caprice, prejudice ignorance incapacity and so forth
as already mentioned — you purchase I say precipitation
in some causes and delay in all. Three ideal days, if I misrecollect not is the utmost allowance made by critics to histories exhibited on the stage. English The authors of the English Jury-system, still more inexorable have decreed that the allow but a single day to the longest history that can would to be exhibited in the theatre of Justice.

First as to precipitation. As dramatic critics it him
have decreed that all fictitious representations dramatic histories the action shall of real transactions shall
have been squeezed into the space of three days,
be compressed into three be compressed on two days so English Lawyers
have decreed that all legal such real histories of real histories representations shall be compressed in one. delivered in a Court of Justice It is the pretence of the bottle-conjuror, without his art. If the whole for body of
the cause can not be got into the bottle, they
cut off a leg an or an arm cram and foot conceive that in,
and throw the rest away. You may certainly do
so if you have power, but justice will not be
the result. You may shut the door in the face
of one witness, you may examine another only on
one side, you may put six questions to him instead
of sixty, you may talk th to the Jury when they are

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Identifier: | JB/035/040/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	22-23
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f3 / f4 / f5 / f6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10633
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