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6 Dec. 1811
EvidenceCh. 8 Securities
§. 3.1. Punishment

§. 3. I. Punishment

Of the force of the political sanction, considered as
applicable in the character of a source of security against deceptions, incorrectness and incompleatness in evidence,
mention has been made above. Punishment is will the observation of to every eye the most
extensively applicable and in general the most efficient
shape, in which, to this as well as other purposes, that
force can be applied.

Quantity – quality – on in this place under neither of those predicaments
need anything to be said: on both of them, though without
any special reference to credence, consideration ma be has already been bestowed in other places.†
† Introd. to Mor. and Legisl.
Dum. &
Dum. Peines & Recomp.

I. Extent in which proper to be given to the application of
punishment is the choice of against deception Remains as the only topic for the consideration of which any
evidence that proper to be given to the application use of this instrument special demand presents itself in this place that of the
this , in of against deception in its application as sufficient to the purpose here in view.

Mendacity being but an instrument in the hand of delinquency
– an instrument applicable to the purpose
of giving birth, through delinquency, to mischief in all its shapes,
co-extensive surely with the mischief of producible by mendacity, ought surely to be
the application of punishment, in so far as punishable
punishment is, applicable with preponderant advantage,
applicable to the prevention of it.

In the course track of judicial procedure in particular,
co-extensive with the application and applicability of that instrument of that
mischief ought to be the application of this remedy.

Thus mendacity < propriety let us look now to what ? now as to prevention.

In certain judicially observance delivered discourse, to mendacity
in cases, especially in those in which it
is employed in the character of an instrument of to the purpose of unauthorized depredation, is punished punishment in the a highest degree,
in the highest punishment in the highest degree, punishment
in a capital shape, is applied. Witness forgery
and personation: and, in inferior degree, in other cases covering, in the field of crime
and punishment
in other ample species.
Witness frauds called
distinguished by the name of
false pretences, and frauds at large.

Identifier: | JB/047/293/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1811-12-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	293	Info in main headings field	evidence ch. 8
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e1 / f79
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	15161
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