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CERTAINTY. EVIDENCE of convicts.

If it be said, the alarm of men would be universal
at finding themselves expend to suffer
then in framing the rules whereby the practise is governed, seem to have consider'd the consequence only on one side. by such evidence, I answer that this could would only
be in virtue of an opinion as universal that
such men evidence were not fit to be believed: in proportion
therefore as that opinion of the people was strong, the resolution
not a situation to which a man will lightly venture to expose himself to to come into court with a which of itself will being false will in all probability be found inconsistent with some truth & liable to detection: with the weight of his former recorded wickedness on his hands. of the Juryis a part of that people
would be strong not to give credit to such
evidence — The mischief & the remedy would
grow up together.

Great Difference where Evidence may be chosen aforehand,
& where it must be taken as it happens: in the
first case, strictness may be used [freely]

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EVIDENCE

Propose that Witnesses might be holden to Bail
ad testificandum on a proper Affidavit

Note Perjury lightly treated

I have had the misfortune to seen Witnesses after the grossest Perjury
walk off [unmolested out of the court] without
any other concern than that only of not having
succeeded: pleasantries about at the Bar,
& fear also even from the Bench. as if it was well put , it was a bold attempt
but it would not do — be hamper'd himself here
- — - - — - - — - — — - — — there

All this has shocked me to the very Soul.

Identifier: | JB/051/005/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field	certainty evidence of convicts
Image	001	Titles	note perjury lightly treated
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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