JB/058/018/001

Click Here To Edit

19 Apr. 1803
Evidence

a word whatever will whatever probability of such conformity a
lot of evidence wold present to the mind of a man circumstanced
as above supposed, with a degree of force exactly proportioned to
such probability of conformity is the degree of force with which
it were to be exerted that it should on each occasion act upon
the mind of the Judge.

These considerations being kept in view, two moral and comprehensive grand objects
two practical objects tasks present themselves as aims questions entitled to fix – and without prejudice to
truth and injustice ever to engross the attention of the legislator.
One is, how so to order matters that not there shall not on any occasion, so
far as the nature of things admitts of a supply, be any want
of evidence of exformation, exhibited in that character, to the judge: – the another is – that each piece of evidence so
exhibited shall in its tenor complexion be as confirmation to the truth, as
exhibited, shall act upon the in its action the
Judges mind, possess the weight exert the force which according measuring weighing to the
standard abovementioned is its due properly belongs to it, possible is the third
that the persuasive force with which it acts on the mind of the Judge
shall be run proportioned as nearly as possible in proportion to the chance it has there is of
such conformity to shew how to the truth of things.

⊞ ⊞ In these three objects
of the division be an
exhaustive one we shall
have so many heads, under
one or other of which, every
thing which there
can be any use in
saying on the subject of evidence. To shew how to make the best persuasion what by the nature of each case admitts of for securing.
How to secure the exhibition of a sufficient and not ore than a sufficient quantity of
such evidence as the nature of the case affords may most effectually be secured how to
as also for securing the correctness and veracity of the evidence so exhibited –
to the and to shew how such assistance may best be afforded and to afford such assistance as can be afforded to
the Judge for the purpose of enabling him to allow in his own
mind to each lot of evidence that weight which properly belongs
to it – in three two three problems we accordingly see
so many heads under which every thing suggestion which that
promises to be of use in any way in the ground of evidence
may without violence be included.

Such accordingly are the views by which that have guided the
arrangement that has been given to the matter comprehended contained in
the compass of the present work.

Identifier: | JB/058/018/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1803-04-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	2-5
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	018	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18687
Box Contents