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6 Jany 1812
Evidence

Or the non-lawyer – or, as in lawyer's language
he is called the unlearned reader – not only in
respect of perspicuity, but in respect of that sort
of satisfaction which is afforded by the observation
of practical use, – under each head, a delineation
more or less particular, of the state of the law as
it is, would naturally have been in no small
acceptable.(a) But, with the design of the present
sketch, any such illustration would have been altogether
incompatible. If the contents of two large
quartos could have been compressed into two or three
hundred octavo pages, doubtless so much the better: beyond
but if they could, the difference would have been so
much surplusage. What has all along been within
the bounds of possibility at least, whether within
or not within those of the author's ability, has been
to excite curiosity: what could only here and there
be so much as attempted, has been – in any some
degree to satisfy it.

(a) For the instruction of the non-lawyer, as also for that including
of the law-student, if any such person there be as one who
being engaged in the study of law as it is, has never
to endure the sight view of a sight, or so much as the a pursuit,
of an object so as that of law as it ought
to be – in other words if anyone there be who, his
prosperity depending upon the depravity of the system can
endure the contemplation of anything in the shape tending to
a cure, I would venture to recommend the perusal, pars passer, of
Mr Peake's Compendium
of the law of Evidence:
and of the 460 pages
that compose that instructive
work, the first 203 are
all that, to the purpose
of the present work, he
will have to look at.

Identifier: | JB/047/221/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1812-01-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	221	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / e3 / f7
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15089
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