★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
3 June 1808
3. The third course is manifestly the simplest.
Unfortunately the same cause circumstance which renders it useful
conducive to the interest general of the in respect of the end of
justice - renders the acceptance of it proportionally improbable.
It makes none of that business which would
be so soon to be made by either of the others: and
by that commotion is rendered adverse to the only interest
which hitherto ever yet has been - or it appears to be at all
in a way to be, [] regarded as entitled to
a preference in the arrangement of the system of procedure.
Th Employ in the first instance on every occasion that number
which to the lieges in the character of jurymen is least
burthensome: if either part party be dissatisfied with
a verdict thus delivered, there will be and not till then will be the time time enough
for giving increase to the numbers, and with it to the
aggregate of the burthen imposed in this shape upon the
.
Thus in English law, as it stood before the time of the
Commonwealth, twelve was the number of the Jurymen
sitting in the first instance. When under the name
of a new trial took place, a new trial
which on condition was to be had for asking that the which liberty and property
of these twelve jurymen should be added put in jeopardy
and added to the state, then four and twenty was the
number, and at the the rank same time the rank, the rank of
knights.
Identifier: | JB/035/248/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1808-06-03 |
not numbered |
||
035 |
constitutional code; evidence; procedure code |
||
248 |
|||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
e10 |
||
jeremy bentham |
|||
10841 |
|||