JB/057/102/001

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1805

Evidence Procedure

Jury

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Jury — its true non
are physic — not as food

The true use of the institution of Juries seems very apt to be
misunderstood: [the use it is of to the judiciary system is rather in the character of medicine
than of food.] Employed in its true character and perfection it
gives a degree of wealth of perfection to the system such as can never be
given to it by any other means: but the character in which it
is really of use seems rather to be that of occasional medicine than daily food.
How many lives are every day saved, how many afflictive/cruel diseases banished by mercury, bark quinquisia and antimony
opium? Is it any disparagement to the virtues of these incomparable admirable
medicines, to say that they would prove but indifferent. absolutely
to bread or potatoes?

The relief offered by
Courts of Conscience
would be removed by Jury
trial introduction of Juries

Substitute Trial by Jury to the natural and summary mode
of procedure employed pursued in the Courts of Conscience: what vexation
what denial of justice would such a change produce be the result of such a change!

A Jury is of no use
but as an antidote
to improbity in a Judge
his superiority of intellectual
qualifications
can be expected from
them.

The use and only use of the institution of a Jury is to
serve as an in the character of an antidote as an antidote to the poison of improbity in the
of the professional Judge. It is Suppose your Judge clear
of all suspicion — suppose him not to be an object of
natural distress on any account, Juries are a Jury is a mere nuisance.
For what quality is it that you would look to a Jury in preference
to a professional Judge? For superiority of intelligence? for superiority
of experience? for superiority in respect of that quickness and
accuracy of discernment which is acquired by the fruit of experience? — no
certainly.

Identifier: | JB/057/102/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1805	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	057	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	102	Info in main headings field	[[info_in_main_headings_field::[evidence deleted] procedure]]
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	18432
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