JB/047/351/001

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30 March 1812
Evidence

II. Deception favoured; viz. by weakening the restraint put upon
mendacity and temerity by the sense of responsibility.

2. If, as in the open mode, and in ordinary conversation,
the deponent were, from first to last, made
to speak in his own person – if the words exhibited
as his had been the very words that had been in
the first instance employed by himself for giving
expression to his own recollections or pretended recollections
– if, in a word the discourse, to which he is
made to annex his signature as if it as being his were his own
were and originally and without variation his own, the sense of responsibility,
which, in this case by a degree &c than
in interests to that the form of speech
in question attaches itself in a degree so much more acute
than to any other, would in some degree operate as a check upon mendacity
and temerity, of a bill made and an order, as a
security against deceptious incorrectness and
incompletatness.

As if to deprive truth and justice of the benefit
of this security, the false which discourse delivered by the deponent,
which, in answer to the questions that had been
propounded, had been delivered by the deponent himself
is in this mode set aside, and another discourse framed, not to say invented, by the
examiner, is substituted, and it is to the spurious this discourse
discourse thus framed by another person that the deponent is made to annex that
signature, by which he certifies it tov be his.(a) (a) Note in another page

Identifier: | JB/047/351/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1812-03-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	2
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	351	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11 / e2 / f137
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	15219
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