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1827 Nov. 21
Constitutional Code

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Ch. XII Judiciary collectively
5 §.31 Inaugural Declaration

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Urbanity to parties
and witnesses

Art. 15. On the elicitation of evidence testimony whether from a party or extraneous
witnesses, it shall on every occasion be my special case, not to wound to avoid wounding
the feeling inflicted on their feelings any unnecessary wound:
not to to avoid shaping giving to my discourse in any such
manner as that it shall appear shape as to invite the assumption
of delinquency in any shape as having place in his instance
nor accordingly to let fall any expression give utterance to or be indicative of anger
or contempt as having place towards him in my breast: [ ]
[ ] or of menace in the
event of his comporting
himself in a manner
otherwise than in accordance
with my wish.

☞ Add the last paragraph in the Article of Constitut. Code p.181 intituled "Arrogance abjured"

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Repression of Advocated
&c inurbanity
to parties and witnesses

Art. 16 Careful to avoid inflicting in on my own instance part any
such unnecessary would on my own part, I will be no less
so in repressing, as soon as observed, any all such disposition on
the part of all other persons any every other person subject to acting in /performing possessing my authority or
performing any part in the theatre of justice: to wit, any every Registrar Juryman, any or Registrar, orevery Government Advocate
or Eleemosynary Advocate, every or Professional Assistant or
Substitute to a party, or any as well as to every party gratuitous
Assistant or Substitute to any party, and every or any extraneous witness,
on the occasion of any question proposed by him to be put
to another any other witness.

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Falshood for elicitation
of truth dispromised.

Art. 17. On no occasion, nor for any purpose, although
it were for the elicitation of relevant and material truth, will
I employ any untrue assertion, direct or implied, for any
such purpose as to cause any per witness to know, believe, or suspect
that by any other witness some matter of fact has been disclosed
that has not been disclosed: yet, while thus avoiding the utterance
of falshood for the elicitation of truth, avoiding at the same time
by distortion of any evidence which has been delivered, the
affordg to any witness any positive facility for prod the fabrication
of false and or other deceptious evidence.

☞ In copying this Article add the Article intituled Insincerity
abjured in Constit. Code p. 181.

Identifier: | JB/042/595/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 42.
Date_1	1827-11-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::5*, 5**, 4* [sic]]]
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	595	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	brocklesby & morbey 1827
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	edmund henry barker
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	13518
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