JB/035/151/001

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24 May 1808

Ch. 4. Supposed Questionable essential and majority peculiar advantage utility
of Jury trial – its application to the assessment of damages.

By damages

By damages a word belonging to the technical language
of the English lawyers lawyer, is understood satisfaction as for
wrong – that satisfaction being administered in a pecuniary
shape, viz. by the payment of a sum of money at the
charge of the supposed wrongdoer the defendant, to and to the
benefit of the party supposed to be wronged – viz. the
plff.

For the adjustment of the quantum of the sum to be
paid on this score, the a Jury has been said to be, and seems
among English lawyers and the people their pupils, appears to be generally regarded as in a peculiar and extensive
degree well fitted, in comparison with any permanent
Judge or bench of Judges.

Such being the position The reason given is this generally trusted relied on for the
support of it appears to be this; viz. sympathy

Identifier: | JB/035/151/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	151	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10744
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