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Indirect

Raising Evidence

The threats of religi political punishment being
impotent, and threats of religious punishment
being inapplicable, [government] in England has there
is
nothing left for it but reward. Oftentimes it costs
five hundred or a thousand pounds to get what
in France is got by monitoires at the expence of
a sheet or two of paper. While in France government
is adjuring in the name of heaven, in
England it is offering giving bribes; or perhaps offering them
without effect.

Here At this pass the law finds itself opposed by this encountered by a terrible formidable dilemma:
offer no money and you get no evidence;
offer money and you run the risk of getting false.
Lawyers unable to solve this gordian knot have
cut it with a quibble: in what manner we shall
see
will be mentioned presently. Here we may see
what it is to have neither plan nor principle:
common law fighting against undoing the work of Statute law: one statutes one statute
fighting against each other another statute: and the same statute
frustrating its own purposes: the law drawing in
mercenary witnesses with one hand, and spurning
them with the other. "she would and she would not"
may be applied said in this ca as on so many other occa-
-sions













Identifier: | JB/087/182/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

087

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

182

Info in main headings field

indirect

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f5 / f6 / f7 / f8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

27707

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