JB/058/011/001

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14 Apr. 1803
Evidence

usage. This omission so far as suggestion goes, so far as can
be done by an individual without authority, will be endeavoured
to be supplied in the course of the ensuing pages. Authority
if

These things being promised, the business of this work,
notwithstanding the extent of it room it occupies will be found capable of being
comprized and announced in three simple propositions. a very narrow compass..

1. A proposition to be proved is that in the mere view for the mere purpose of
ensuring rectitude of decision – in other words for the avoidance
of the six inconveniences into which erroneous decision branches
out and itself – no species of evidence whatsoever ought
to be excluded, in technical language that all testimony,
that all evidence ought to be deemed competent may without
any defalcation from the probability chances in favour of a right
decision in the in any case and with a great addition
to it in many cases, be deemed competent and as such
admitted.

2. Another proposition is – that action in cases lots on the case score either of
of evidence partly of quantity partly of quality lots of evidence
of certain descriptions may be notwithstanding and ought to be
excluded. But this rather in the for the avoidance of the collateral
inconveniences of vexation, expence and delay, thus
for the avoidance of the inconveniences and of the first
order comprized under the head of wrong decision: on
the account not of the danger of their proving delusive, but
of the certainty appearance of their being needless and superfluous.

Identifier: | JB/058/011/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1803-04-14	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	011	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d11
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18680
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