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4 Juries Note to p.4

4. defects (a) In In the infancy of society , when every thing
was in miniature , this security measure might in
general be sufficient . When a one sentence was enough served
for a conveyance , a day might serve be enough for a
trial . A sentence serves for a conveyance still :
though that sentence would often fill a volume , and
costs the price of as much as many thousand volumes : for
sentences are made of stretching leather . the lawyer's sentences are made of the same leather with their
consciences. Juryman's day is not Unfortunately the equally alike flexible . English Lawyers , have by a geometry of their own , have
continued to make a term equal of a day : but found the secret of making <add>reducing a term of a month to the scantling more than</add>
the powers of gibberish their art have not gone so far as to make expand a
day to the <add>bulk demon as of</add> equal to a term. The Juryman's day
has retained its dim original dimensions : and
so have the understandings of lawyers , and of
legislators blended and led by lawyers. Here as elsewhere , it It is
for inexperience to give law to experience , barbarity
to civilization : what was at first tolerable , when
it has ceased to be so , mounts aloft , and becomes adorable.

Identifier: | JB/035/041/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	041	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	note to p. 4
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f4*
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10634
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