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28 May 1808

Among the innumerable instances of the like kind that must have sunk
in oblivion, for want of a historiographer to record them,
every now and then one has happened which has found
its way into a book. The instances I speak of
are instances of the expedients which the distress of their
situation has forced upon those persecuted afflicted Judges, while
in the course of their the efforts to by in which they have
sought relief under the pressure imposed upon them weight pressing at once upon
honour and their upon conscience consciences.

One way to cast lots: the guilt of perjury being inevitable,
the danger of giving birth to injustice an unjust decision being inevitable,
let the hame and reproach of voluntary guilt as far as possible
be either spared to all or divided amongst all shared by all: and
since honest opinion can not, let chance determine
on which side of the cause such success and on which side not success
who shall gain and who shall lose shall take place.

No, cries the inexorable lawyer Judge wherein in whose
corrupted bosom a long and uninterrupted course of falshood and injustice
has destroyed and extirpated all moral feelings all sensibility to moral considerations.
Perjury known manifest perjury with the shame and humiliation of it in all its bitterness – perjury they have commended, is what my predecessors have ordained, and perjury
I will have: no subterfuges nor palliatives. Be this
as it may, as far as the sort of compromise has been
known to be made the parties have been all punished for it, the Jurymen
have been all fined.

Identifier: | JB/035/195/001 "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	195	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d29 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	10788
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