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28 May 1808

2. Another expedient would be – if false declarations
of must be compelled at least do away
the oath. Then the country would at any rate be
deterred from the perjury. If in England as in Scotland
the service of law will not be satisfied without permission
to force spread corruption into the morals and understanding
of the people, let him content himself with simple
mendacity: and this if new – this a fresh accession to the stock of useful vice mendacity without perjury, might surely since be
enough to content a reasonable mind.

What? will nothing serve suffice without but an oath, to cause
an – and no man who has nothing to gain by injustice,
to prefer doing injustice to in his own dealings justice to injustice?
This experiment might be worth trying a least. Arbitration
take no oath: and in Scotland, where both parties are
honest, neither wanting to burthen the other with any part of that delay load
of factitious delay, vexation and expence, of which the
Court of Session with the judicatories its subordinate judicatories are the
marked overt, men they both gain in employing recourse to arbitrators.

Identifier: | JB/035/194/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1808-05-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	194	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d28 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10787
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