JB/047/164/001

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17 Decr 1805
Evidence

In the word buz (says the honest and sagacious )
in the word buz, taken by itself there is no harm, nor in the
act of pronouncing it any matter presenting a demand for
punishment: but, if by looking a man in the face and
pronouncing the word buz, I were to take upon me to bewitch
him, in a state of in which the effect called
witchcraft were commonly regarded as capable of being produced by such causes words
the law would do right in punishing me.

The word buz which in the hands of that most intelligent
of English lawyers lawyer of his age served for the exemplification
of the learning of witchcraft, may serve as with no
less propriety for the exemplification to exemplify of the learning of
regular procedure. You said buz, and therefore
you shall lose your cause: judgment shall go against you: here in this phrase we have a sufficiently correct
sample of those pretences which belong to the head of fiction:
I cry buzz: and therefore judgment shall go against you:
in this phrase we have an equally correct sample of the
pretences, which referable belong to come under the head of decisions on grounds
foreign to the merits: you omitted to cry buz: – still an equally
correct sample of the pretences which belong to come under the
head of decisions on the ground of non-observance of
regulations never made.

Identifier: | JB/047/164/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1805-12-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	164	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15032
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