JB/087/083/004

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Indirect Legislation

Satisfying

It seems unfortunately to be the case with
these expedients institutions as well as many others equally that promise seem
desirable requisite to be of use, that they are least likely to be
adopted where there is most occasion for them. It
is in England only that persons remaining
exposed to any reasonable suspicion of criminality
would form a numerous class: and it is in England
only that means of the kind above suggested
would be reprobated on the score of hardship.
Under every no other system of jurisprudence but the
British is any scruple entertained about collecting
what lights can be collected from the
examination of a suspected person under suspicion; nor about
adjourning a trial when there appears to be
such a defect of evidence as a further enquiry
might supply. In all other countries of Europe
the end of penal [jurisprudence] justice is the suppression
of what passes at least for delinquency:
in England it consists the end consists in the
adherence to certain legal rules, the which are supposed without
examination are taken for given to be favourable
to innocence. Which is most on the right
in these points, Great Britain on the one part
and all the rest of Europe on the other, it is not
to our present purpose to enquire.

Identifier: | JB/087/083/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	083	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f61 / f62 / f63 / f64
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27608
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