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Raising Evidence

-sions to the English law with as much truth
as ever it could to the most capricious female.

I know not what judge it was who attentive
only to the possible mischief on one side and
blind to the certain mis mischief on the other
first laid down the specious but delusive unsubstantial
maxim, "no man ought to be admitted as a witness
in his own cause." The application of it
to the present subject I am apt to think is not of any very ancient
date.

The legislature of this country, in laying
down injunctions, which no one who was in the
way to be a witness to the breach of them had
any a condition particular interest in enforcing,
very early saw the necessity of creat raising creating
up an artificial interest and calling in adventitious
evidence. Accordingly the way was after describing the
offence it gave to give the people to understand, in
conformity to the simple mode of administring
justice in those times, that if any one would
inf inform, would give information to, the King or the King's
Justices, he should have so and so. Who To whom then
was

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	182	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	003	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]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	27707
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