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Feby 1809 Jury Trial

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6 Yet it was continued several hundred years The cause of the change is written in the nature face of the
case. For some three or four hundred years things continued
in this state: during all which time "every thing" of course
"was as it should be.

7 When put out of use by the had been seen to be beneficial to Lawyers, or it would not have taken place. About the middle of the 17th century — in the
midst of the civil wars — in time of innovation in the
course of which the voice of the people had found means
to make itself heard [and their favour to make itself worked,
the ruggedness of primeival barbarity having moreover by this
time in a considerable degree has worn off, [+] an idea a suspicion presented itself in the minds of the sages of the law, that the endeavours
to apply correction to these mistakes was not not
and consequently the profit from these endeavours,
were not so abundant as by [virtue of a little economy under favour <add>with the help of a little better management</add> they might be made. On the part of the 24 infallibles the
readiness to inflict destruction on the 12 semi-infallibles
was not always quite so as could be wished — no one
even a the party part of the party wronged, who supposed himself to call for it. If
instead of ruining effecting the mix of the twelve occasional judges whose decision
was complained of, the mischief of done by it being repaired
or not as it might happen, the reparation or something
towards reparation were to be made to the party wronged,
having the 12 mistaken men unruined if in a word
new trial were to take place if attaint, a suspicion conception was
entertained that the loss by attaints not applied for, might
be more than made up for and with prof advantages by profit
upon new trials when granted , plus d. upon applications for d- when refund,

Identifier: | JB/035/311/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1	1809-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-7
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	311	Info in main headings field	jury trial
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10904
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