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1825 June 28 Enactive
Evide Procedure CodeCh. Evidence

Art. Exceptions excepted, on the account and for
the purpose of any suit, commenced or contemplated,
every person is compellable to furnish evidence.

Art. No person is compellable to declare any opinion
on any subject in relation to which suit the declaration
of an opinion to any effect would be punishable.

Art. If on in relation to any subject whatsoever the declaration
of any opinion should be law have been made punishable
a case which however it is hoped will never occurr, no person
shall be compellable to make declaration of his opinion
in relation to that subject. By any compulsion so employed
the Judge himself would give to the birth to the crime and
turn punish it. He would committ a crime and punish
another person for a crime which but for him the himself
the Judge would not have been committed.

Art. The Judge will not compell the furnishing
of evidence in any case in which more evil would
be produced by its being furnished than by its not
being furnished.

Art. Such greater preponderances of evil being
or produced either by the disclosure of facts,
or by the delay vexation and expence necessary to the
furnishing the evidence. As to the evil producible by the dislosure
of facts see Cases for secrecy, Ch. §. Case for
secrecy.

Identifier: | JB/054/106/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 54.
Date_1	1825-06-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-10
Box	054	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	106	Info in main headings field	enactive procedure code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	17625
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