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1827 Oct. 12 D +3 A

Procedure Code

2o
Preparatory Resolution
(1) (1 § 4 No Oath

☞ This before Procedure?

☞ 1828 Nov 15. Supposed superseded
all this about Oaths by the Petition for Justice

1
Justice of decision
depends on correctness and verity
compleatness of evidence

That the security against afforded? in every instance in so
far as the judicial decision turns on the question of fact the justice uniformity
of that same decision to justice depends on the verity or say the correctness
and the relative compleatness of the evidence on which it is
grounded.

2
Security for verity
should be applicable to all

That the security afforded provided for such verity
by means in the shape of punishment for falsity falshood whether wilful and
thereby criminal or through for want of the attention and thereby
culpable ought to be of in its nature such of which
all persons are alike sensible, and not of the sort to which
in an indefinitely large proportion it may happen to seem to
be insensible

3
Course taken For obtaining
security course taken by the
judicial authority of minute
importance compared to
that taken by the legislative
authority

That in comparison of the course taken by the
legislative authority in respect of relation to any species of acts lawful
or unlawful contracts for instance and conveyance or
crimes the importance of the course taken by the
judicial authority in relation to individual acts of these
same species is indefinitely and incontestably manifestly minute
yet for securing verity in the evidence on which the acts
of legislative authority is grounded this House has at all
times contented itself with such security as is afforded
by punishment if the nature of those to which all men are
sensible without the addition of that to which in so deplorable
a proportion men are liable to be insensible.

4
If the words of Jesus
Swear not at all do not
prohibit judicial oaths they
do not command them

That if it be admitted that the words of Jesus
Swear not at all were not intended designed to amount include the parties
taken of the act of swearing as applied to the purpose of

Identifier: | JB/057/299/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1827-10-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	057	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	299	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	brocklesby & morbey 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	edmund henry barker
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public	[[notes_public::"1828 nov. 15 supposed superseded all this about oaths by the petition for justice" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	18629
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