JB/047/364/001

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29 Jany 1812
Evidence

Left to be imagined whether this case be a penal the
whether purpose and incidence can act fully understood
to be among the parts of it.

9. When the evidence is received it is in any less untrustworthy
and deceptious shape much anxiety that the evidence is received, great
(as will be seen in its proper place) as (great as will in due time will be seen) is the anxiety manifested, on the
one hand for on the one hand under the apprehension; on the one hand of giving birth to
deception, by testimony whi consonant to the wishes of
the examinee, on the other hand, under the fear of giving birth to vexation, by testimony repugnant to his wishes.

Thus scrupulous is the anxiety displayed, where the shape, in which
the testimony presents itself, is that as possesses in the several ways highest and
Where the shape given to the testimony is to the
which possesses the highest claim to confidence. On the other hand, no sooner does it change to that which, in the degree that has just been seen, is
degree in which has been untrustworthy and
favourable to the purpose of deception, than all those scruples vanish.
Pay Not by interest in any shape, not by improbity
in any shape, not even by recorded perjury, is a
man excluded from delivering his testimony, provided
it be in into this most deceptitious shape that it is clothed greater be the in which
if this, the most deceptious of all shapes be the shape in which
it is clothed: nor on the other hand, when, called by a hostile
affidavit, called upon to defend himself against or
submit to, the threatened obligation, burthen, even though it be a penal one, will the severity of any
vexation, to which it may be the effect of compliance
to subject himself him to, be serve as a plea to save
him from it.

Identifier: | JB/047/364/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1812-01-29	Marginal Summary Numbering	9
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	364	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d24 / e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15232
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