JB/047/343/001

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28 March 1812
Evidence

At the time when the system of Jury trial was first
formed formed, not only was printing was altogether unknown, but even writing, the great source of complication, was, except
in the instance of a few instruments, public and here and there an instrument
private of primary importance, public and private together, scarcely in use. The
ignorant and simplicity of the age, while it ensured
a proportionable degree of simplicity to the all subjects of disputediscussion, ensured at the same time a correspondent degree
of simplicity, and precipitancy, and imperfection to
the course employed for pursued in examining into the
grounds and merits of pursuit. all subjects of the dispute. Slight was the degree
of complication, or of even of estimated difficulty and importance that sufficed to give to a legal knot
the character of a Gordian one: and in that case, for
the cutting of it, in some cases instances an assertion of the party, conceived in the most general
terms, with the ceremony of the oath for sanction to sanctionment,
it, and a general attestation of character for a corroboration,
– in others, a mutual attempt to murder, called
an appeal to heaven, – was received in preference to
and to the exclusion of, all other evidence.

Identifier: | JB/047/343/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	4
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	343	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3 / f129
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	john dickinson & c<…> 1809
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	a. levy
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1809
Notes public		ID Number	15211
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