JB/058/338/001

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13 April 1805
Evidence

In fact, and probably surely not with design under the technical system, allegation is carefully
distinguished from evidence. Call it evidence, it must
in case of mendacity, be punished stand exposed to punishment: call it allegation – bare
allegation, a pretence is found, such as it is, for exempting it
from punishment. Viz it is the lone point of view, view it
otherwise than through the medium of habit and prejudice, the appellation
of evidence belongs to it with no less propriety in the one case
than in the other. In point of utility there is no better reason
in the one case than in the other why mendacity should go without punishment or without
shame, why all endeavours should reason or why it should be crowned beforehand by a the certainty of success a certainty of success
should be secured to its endeavours.it exertions.

Yes: evidence it is stated in both cases. In both cases the one case
as well as in the other, it it any is ever capable of appearing in all sorts of shapes
from the most trustworthy down to that which in trust is the least trustworthy. To
what is called allegation the original allegation of the party is it of the
nature of makeshift evidence? is it for example no more than
Hearsay evidence? Thus it may be and often is: though not
necessary: but of this sort may be that which is called evidence,
and yet be received and have weight and a weight sufficient
of itself to decide the causes. Is it self-serving? but so is
that which is called evidence: yet that is not only received admitted, but
on a thousand occasions, and under the established systems, admitted to
be conclusive.

All that can be said is: that the allegations in a cause are very
apt to be of the nature of Hearsay and other makeshift evidence, and
that they may be accompanied with a just claim in cases where
the of witness the self-regarding witness the alledging party, has
not been in a situation to add to such his transmitted evidence, any
immediate evidence testimony – using information derived from his own knowledge.

Identifier: | JB/058/338/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	338	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19007
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