JB/052/357/001

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1827 July 27

Procedure Code Evidence
Selection
1. Avoid character Evidence
Individual

Art.1 Ch in relation to certain between species and species of evidence
Avoid as far as may be, all recourse to character. Evidence
Employ it not but where the event of the suit depends altogether
upon the degree of credit given to the individual witness to where
character objection isn impugned made.

Consider To this purpose that in English practice the punishment of
death has every one and the been inflected on the ground of no
better in other evidence than the testimony of some
one individual to whom the as disreputable a character as can
be imagined how at the same time been seen to belong: he
at the same time being apprised that the preservation of his life
depends upon the purpose has giving his testimony in a certain direction given to his testimony and then
for bringing it into and keeping it in that same direction

To the Judges notice the observation will not escape that
to the thread of character evidence when one began to be species, thence
is certain ation. Evidence Witnesses being called to speak whether
favourably or unfavourably to the character untrustworthiness of a witness, reason may
present itself or at times on the part of this or that party the desire,
to impugn the character of any one or every one of these same
giving witnesses: and so on through any member of successive
sets of character giving witnesses

Generally speaking of where as under the Code, the
power of interrogation as given to every sort description of person in whose instance
it affords a promise of being of use, and the exercise of [+] this mode of common
member will at all familiar
with every witness
being secured, and the
faculty of re-examining
at any time during or
subsequently to the continuance
of the suit in question being
reserved
it unfettered by needless and useless rules, few coincidences
witnesses will pass undetected and any for additional light then
by capability might be afforded by examination into general reputation
will be of little worth.

Under English practice it is to the imperfections inaptitudes of the whole
system that character evidence and alike evidence of which below
are principally indebted for the importance ascribed to them and the use
made of them.

Identifier: | JB/052/357/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 52.
Date_1	1827-07-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	052	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	357	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles	instructional
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 /
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1826
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1826
Notes public		ID Number	17030
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