JB/035/168/001

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27 May 1818

In England's practice the idea of proportioning number
to importance is not altogether without unknown stranger exemplification

Below twelve, an instance in which by "statute the
number appointed was is six, and I believe another
in which it is nine, were observed in Burns' Justice.+ + Examiner
Above twelve, besides the Grand Jury, a sort of judicatory of which
the constitution and functions differ too wildly to
be brought into parallelism with the one here in question
we have, we had at least, double the Jury of 24 for Attaints.

Happily for Scotland, in Scotland this English
prejudice will find no ready-tuned chord in unison
with it. In Scotland, in the cases where Jury trial
is in use, the number is 15 and these being the
penal causes and as such warrant by afford by
their comparative infrequency a relative diminution of the burthen
and by their superior importance a comparative warrant for it.

Identifier: | JB/035/168/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	168	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10761
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