JB/057/303/001

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1827 8 Oct. 12
Procedure Code

6 Preparatory Resolutions
(6 § No Oath

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Of falsehood being
unpunishable unless
coupled with
an oath one consequence
is that when it is so coupled
it is not punished in one
case of out of a thousand

Of the arrangement by which falshood notwithstanding the benefit
derivable from it, as above is made unpunishable otherwise than when
by being coupled into an act of swearing it has been invoked with
the name of perjury one consequence is that even when after it is
marked with that appellation denomination it is scarce ever punished and not
punished it may be said without danger of error in one instance
out of a thousand of those in which it is counselled: in a deplorably larger
proportion of which cases that success that reward is received from
it for the purpose of which it is uttered, & is evil prevented, because
it is not prosecuted: it is not prosecuted because in a larger
proportion it may suffice to send the largest proportion of the instance
in which the offence is committed, success in case if prosecuted
is sure to be impossible. It is impossible when in opposition to the
perjured witness, there needs not any more than one person capable
of giving testimony

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Hence the expense
of prosecuting so great
as that a vast majority
of the population are
unable to defray it.

But supposing testimony ever so abundant, while success in prosecution is unclear the expense
the factitious expense attached to prosecution s vast and extensive
so vast that a vast majority of the whole proportion are under a
compleat incapacity of defraying it: That this is what is given
to be lost by it: which except in instances too few and too
to be worth consideration, nothing is to be got at, no redress, no
indemnification no compensation for the suffering of which the perjury
has been the cause.

Identifier: | JB/057/303/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1827-10-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	15-16
Box	057	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	303	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18633
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