JB/047/352/001

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29 Jany 1812
Evidence

6. If as in the open mode, and in ordinary the deponent were to
speak in his own person a thief if his statement
though expressed delivered in the first instance in writing, were expressed in the first person, if, in a word the discourse the sense of responsibility
to which he is made to annex his signature as if it were his own
were really his own – the sense of responsibility naturally attached to that grammatical form might
in some degree operate as a check upon mendacity
as a security for correctness and compleatness. As if
to depose truth and justice of the benefit of this security,
the false and unnatural and affected and insipid and the inconsistent and insipid form in which of the 3d person
it employed is religiously observed.

When the art of writing the of the art of was in a manner confined to priests
and lawyers, and of among non-lawyers the ignorance was so ignorance was so
great gross and general, as, on an occasion thus solemn and thus formidable scarce to admitt
of any thing likeapproach to correct and instructive statement without tutorage, it was natural
enough, that the person individual from whom the information
came, and who in writing at least would was
not able to give his own account of it, should, instead
of speaking himself being himself the speaker, be spoken of by the man in authority
by whom in this learned form the information was delivered.

Thus it is that Not but that in this way, the inf instead of the
more trustworthy shape of immediate the testimony testimony, the information
presented itself, to the eyes and ears of several persons at least, in
more the less trustworthy shape of hearsay evidence
and hearsay evidence, delivered reported in writing, by a
person, himself unapparent and unknown. But in
those days, By distinction thus refined distinctions thus refined little value would
be attracted refined would attract little notice.

Identifier: | JB/047/352/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1812-01-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	2a
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	352	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	note (a)
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d12 / e3 / f138
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	15220
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