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13 Apr. 1803
Evidence

Delay – and even its opposite – precipitation – might if it
was worth while be shewn, if it were were it worth while, to be among
the results inconveniences mischiefs of which this obscurely seeming pregnant grievance is productive.
Without the metaphor, there is no speaking of this
ground. On a road so full of crossings and turnings, the
traveller is every now and then forced to stop pause to consider which
turning he shall take. But of Of perplexity, in some minds hesitation
is the result; but in others precipitation: – a failing from
which even Judges, though less prone to it than most men prone to it
have not always been exempt.

In one pretence or another – interest – improbity – religion –
a witness is excluded: the Judge refuses so much as to hear him. The
Judge, where were it a case that came before him in his private capacity
– in his capacity of Father or Master of a family, would be had he had felt
a personal interest in the discovery of the truth, would he have been thus inexorable? If not, there is the there is precipitation a may as without
much much more natural cause of the artificial deafness, than prudence.
Heaing in a certain degree, decision deciding in a still greater degree
might be the relation to a work of trouble. This trouble he frees himself from. To free himself from this trouble, he
lays hold of the cause of labour difficulty and converts it the magnitude of it into a pretence for
shrinking from it ridding himself of he whole. To untie the know would be too much trouble.
The pretence is a sword. In this pretence he finds the a sword, with which he cuts it.

To an Anglo Norman Judge a Baron bold, cased in iron steel from head to foot, Among the Anglo-Norman Judges every decision of on evidence
was a labour burthen to heavy for such privileged as well as too vulgar for such exalted high-polished shoulders. Instead
of hearing the parties, instead of hearing witnesses, he set them a fighting
for their lives. It be thus scarce a question of any consequence was tried in any other way.‡ ‡ Crompton He saved himself the trouble of thinking, and
in the old stile, treated gave himself and friends with the amusement of a rarce-shew
shew. As for the function of judicature, it the very sort of race-shew they were most fond of. Whatever difficulty there might be in the case was thus turned over
to God Almighty, who alone was equal to it.

In process of time Objections, of one kind or other starting up, by the next resource was
to turn it over to a mob, to see what they could make of it. At length
By degrees the members in this mob in these mobs became fixed – out a form of words
called an oath was read to them – and thus for the first or the second time,
thus came Juries.

Identifier: | JB/058/136/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1803-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	37
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	136	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18805
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