JB/087/182/004

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Indirect

Raising Evidence

was it that this reward was offerd to? It was to
the evidence himself, who having seen what
had passed upon such and such an occasion
wil would go and tell to the magistrate, without delay or
formality as a son
would go to his father
and tell
what he had seen. [The sages of the law had
not at that time as yet wove spun out that complicated system
of restrictions wh with regard to the device of evidence,
which had it not been for a thread streak or
two of inconsistency which here and there got in
unobserved would have been enough we now have termed to turn strangle the
substantivetial part of the law into a dead letter.]
Justice in its cradle
In those days no attorneys to assist fraud and plunder
innocence: causes suitors appeared before the
judge in person as children before their father:
causes were discussed and (where the case admitted
of it as it does oftener than not) terminated at
one a sitting. [No artificial unnecessary delays: no unnecessary artificial
expenses: none of those subdivisions of legal offices
which (so different is the work of justice from
the works of mechanism) produce delay and embarrassment
instead of care and expedition. The
functions of witness and inf prosecutor were performed
by the same person: who in these cases
was stiled the informer
and why not? should it
have been otherwise? who so proper to give in the
information as he alone who could make it good?

Identifier: | JB/087/182/004 "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	004	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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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27707
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