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CERTAINTY BAIL

The exercise of the discretionary power of Bailing, is founded on either the one or the other, or both of
these two suppositions, that the accused is not guilty of the Crime charged upon him
or that tho' guilty, it is of such a crime the where punishment is such that to avoid it is
worth his while considering his circumstances situation in life to renounce his country the friends that have been bound for & sacrifice his friends

A man is pronounced not guilty for that purpose summarily & ex parte by a Judge or Judges with little
danger or with a of a wound to Justice, when the charge, if taken taking it for true, facts of proving like to be
so: with little occasion for jealousy, because it is condemnation not absolution
that men are afraid of from the hands of permanent & exalted Magistracy

The first case would have been more accurately expressed by
that the magnitude of the mischief of his escaping, nullified by the chances for his being +
+ or rather appearing guilty; for if he really was guilty but appeared not to be so, his impunity would be production of no mischief
guilty, is less than that of the mischief of his suffering imprisonment, nullified by


Identifier: | JB/050/053/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

050

Main Headings

procedure code

Folio number

053

Info in main headings field

certainty bail

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

2

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

cc1

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16044

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