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8 Obs.

Jurisdiction Partiality — Confession reality any thing to apprehend especially under
the safeguard of publicity: facing danger only
where it is imaginary and having it un
unopposed in all cases where it is real the law
instead of doing any sort of good, rather does
harm by the false ill-grounded confidence it holds out
tends to inspire: it pretends to have done
every thing when in fact it has done worse
than nothing. force him to declare in the face
of the public the situation in which he stands,
all eyes are from that moment fixed upon
him, deceit becomes hopeless and his probity
whatever be almost be the temptation may be more safely relied upon instead of
being shaken by the temptation is rather placed
upon so much the surer ground.

Bind him thus by the ties of honour to
give information of every the smallest source of
partiality which can lurk within his breast, you
at the same time embrace the whole extent the
danger in its whole extent, opposing to it at the
same time such barriers as it is impossible
for it to surmount. In no other way is it possible
to get at compass the end in any tolerable
degree: you can the specification of the several
situations would be endless: the texture of the laws would


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Identifier: | JB/051/256/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

051

Main Headings

evidence; procedure code

Folio number

256

Info in main headings field

obs.

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f7 / f8 / f9 / f10

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16421

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