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The consideration of delay affords an objection as insuperable
as the precipitation and the expence. Still not less more insuperable.
Bring a Jury upon the stage, adieu to all
speedy Justice. You could not manage it, even though
you were are to put yourself to the expense of a perpetual
club of Its Jurymen : one set never turning their backs
till another came to relieve them. For you would not
put one Jury to begin a cause and a different one to
finish it : and if you did not, you would never one
Jury could never know when they were to go off the stage, nor
another when they were to come on. Nine causes
out of twelve shall take but ten minutes a piece : & just so
long as is necessary for a man to look at a note of bill of
hand exchange hand or an bill of exchange endorsement and say whether it is his writing : but two
others shall take ten hours, and the third ten days.
Other causes shall require many appearances, with
long intervals between them : which one died or paper is
lasted hunting out,, the construction of another arguindg, and
different witnesses brought from different parts of
the country to speak to different points. Thus they
must either be shut up in conclaves as before, or
they are no longer Juries.

A Jury might indeed be returned appreciated for each
cause, as in the present English mode by for a distant
day, and in the mean time evidence of all sorts made got
ready, somewhat after the answer of and in the present English mode practice: : but than the



Identifier: | JB/035/043/003
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

25

Box

035

Main Headings

constitutional code; evidence; procedure code

Folio number

043

Info in main headings field

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f7 / f8 / f13 / f14

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

10636

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