JB/035/183/001

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28 May 1808

Supposing Jury trial be adopted in Scotland among the
questions have been this whether in Scotland as in England
unanimity on the part of the Jury shall be insisted
on and in England amongst lawyers, the stronger prevalent
opinion it has been said is that it ought on the affirmative side.

I have spoken of the corruption planted seated
by this practice in the moral and thence in the intellectual
part of the public minds. But in proof
of this, the very starting of such a question might itself
suffice. In the mind which can adhere not
to any how embraced such a proposition, virtue and vice
right and wrong must have become matters of indifference.

I The pursuer of this anomaly not the of a reason
has been given: none can ever be.
But somehow or other a notion has been entertained conceptions have been formed
that by means under the influence of it, the business would go on more
smoothly than without it.

In support of the opposite conceptions reasons have
been given above.

Identifier: | JB/035/183/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	183	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d17 / e7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10776
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