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26 Jany 1808

Under Statute law especially in civil causes you have less need of a Jury,
and at the same time, having if you have the institution, you
may share more benefit from it, you may extract
from it more of that use service which it is in the nature of
it to afford.

Under Statute law, the pretension is more palpably
than under jurisprudential, the pretension
that Jurymen are not proper judges of the law.

Under jurisprudential law this pretension can
never be without divested of . A law That which has
no existence nobody can understand is not capable of being understood by anybody,
consequently not by a set of Jurymen: to all this if
a denial can not easily be opposed. For the same
reason neither should it be intelligible to Judges: but
forasmuch as seeing that they belong to the class of those by whom
what there is of reality as it is made, in every instance what little
chance there is of its being understood by anybody, is
all on their side.

Under Statute law you may insist, and ought to
insist boldly that the in every case the Jury shall be
not only in appearance but in reality judges of the law
that the best of the law shall be presented to them that the decision pronounced upon it shall be truly theirs.

Identifier: | JB/091/288/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-01-26	Marginal Summary Numbering	12015
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	288	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	29284
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