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PERJURY Intensity of averment

would have made upon himself

If John & Thomas and William being brothers were in a crush
together by day-light & awake: & John drew a dagger & stabbed
Thomas, would William if upon being asked whether he
John had had ever seen known John do any thing hurt to Thomas
had said answered that he was not certain, much less more
that "ashe thought, as he remembered as he believed, he never
had", appear less plainly to have belied his conscience
than if he had declined positively no such thing had
happened? I believe there is no man who would think it.

Very often the only that there is is a common In many cases, this evidence of this kind is the only evidence that there is,
its & if the witnesses are conscientious, he have to be can be of
this kind, & the evidence carries the Verdict it is upon this that the verdict must depend.

It was probably in contemplation of this opinion of Ld
Coke's that Ld Clarendon when Chancellor † † Qn. whether whether it was he made an
order, which is not & which it is impossible should be practically invariably observed
requiring, that requiring that an Answer concerning a transaction
[of the party's own# # Qn. is any transaction?] happened which happen within 6 years before
should speak person (i.e. under fear of not being con received as
full) peremptorily & not merely as to remembrance & belief.

Identifier: | JB/047/002/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	002	Info in main headings field	perjury intensity of averment
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14870
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