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1824 Decr. 16 1825 Decr 20 +
Constitutional Code

Ch. XXVI Local Headmen Registrars
§
English practice
Coroner Inquest

4 13

Confined to extraordinary deaths.

25 or 9
Art. 25 or 9. Death-
recording function
English provision by
Coroner's Inquest — its
inaptitude

1. The notification is Confined to deaths,
known or suspected to
be violent. To any
amount
Inadequate
as to its only purpose
the crime preventing
Domestic murders may
to any amount have
remained undivulged
by it.

2. As to the Number of
the functionaries inadequate;
42 only for
England Wales excluded

3. Proportionably equal
the expence in Coroner's
fees, and Journeys of
him and Jurymen: 40 or
50 made in some cases

4: By the delay, the
real evidence evaporates

5. Means of obtaining
personal evidence inadequate

6. Doors open closable
closeable whenever
injustice is not
indicated.

Deaths singly considered. Of the business
belonging under the head of this one of the functions of the here proposed
Headman a simple portion certain portion is in England performed by an
Officer called a Coroner(a): manner as inadequate in the c
is exception. As to the absurdity of the results
the punishment of the afflicted app relations in case of suicide, established the p
by which it is , the punishment of the view of a
v when without def it has become an instrument
of death — these with other extravagances of which in New Zealand
c would be ashamed disdain to disprove himself with taking not to the Constitutional
Code that the Penal Code and the Procedure Code

all of the highest
institutions f if
to wisdom of wise
members

What belongs to this place is the scantiness of the provision
made in the of appropriate functionaries, and at
the same time the expressiveness of it. Coroners, can to a County
of which in England and Wales these are forty two save for
to areas. In this or that County, if the Coroner happens
to be met at the time — and there is nothing to his being
so, he may have to travel some fifty or sixty miles to a
spot while the indication which a speedy timely visit might exhibit receive discern
are evaporating or evaporated. To service him from
responsibility he is provided with a d under the name
of that everlasting all embracing instrument of delusion a Jury: a
species of judicatory thus got up at times the
express or unimprecated vexation of an apt
If so it happen that he is not by every under the that not being
not having any thing to get by if he is not it
under the of any
happens not to be bent upon injustice, he is written suffers the p
distinction of persons l to several what : if in the case he keeps the them
doors locked out.

26 or 10
Art. 26 or 10. Topics dismissed
1 In cases of suicide punishment
of the afflicted innocent.
[+]

[+] 2. Accidental instrument a
carriage, punishment of the
innocent owner.
3. Remedy for both injustices
perjury.




Identifier: | JB/042/772/001
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Date_1

1824-12-16

Marginal Summary Numbering

25 or 9 - 26 or 10

Box

042

Main Headings

constitutional code

Folio number

772

Info in main headings field

constitutional code

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e13

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

13695

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