JB/081/087/001

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1828. Novr.
Petition for Justice
1. Cases
V. Oaths

V. Device the 5th Oaths, for the purpose establishment of the mendacity,
necessitated. That the ceremony of an oath is
the instrument by means of which the licence to commit
mendacity is effected, has just been stated. Now as
to the mode of applying the instrument to this purpose.
Nothing can be more simple. On the occasion of what any
statement about to be made, on a juridical occasion, or for
an eventually juridical purpose, is it is your wish
(you being a Judge) that mendacity should not have place, you cause the
individual by whom the statement is made, to have,
just before the making of it, borne his past in this
same ceremony: on the occasion of a any statement
so made, is it is your wish that mendacity should
have place, you abstain from requiring the performance
of that this same ceremony: and at the same time,
you give to the naked statement so made, whatsoever
effect it suits your purpose to give to it.

Not that it was for this purpose that
the ceremony itself was invented: for, along with the times
the cause of it's invention is lost in the darkness of
the early ages: all that, on this occasion, is meant
in that it is for the purpose of organizing and in
mendacity, that, and giving to that vice every practicable encrease, that the ceremony, being found already in use, it was
taken advantage of.

Properties, which we shall now
present to the view of the Honorable House this
instrument as possessing are the following: they consist
in it's being

1. Needless, to wit to the purpose of repressing mendacity
on judicial occasions or for a Judicial purpose.
2. Inefficacious

Identifier: | JB/081/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1828-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field	petition for justice
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1 / f38
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	25874
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