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The property of the pen the pen is upon such a
who can be rendered are base enough to practice it.

II. 4. No exclusion of evidence on the ground of improbity

Where the force of interest is acting at the highest pitch, and
the degree of improbity at the same time at the highest pitch,
and the fact established by the most irrecusable evidence – and the mischief of misdecision, if produced by such evidence
also at the highest pitch, no less than the distinction of an
life – when all those three causes of exclusion are
combined together, operating with joint conjunct force, in this case testimony
is admitted: admitted in every day's practice, and
for anything that ever appeared, in the way of either of fact or
argument, without preponderant inconvenience.

In the theory and practice of English Judges
every not an of the those two grounds of exclusion but has is
been held
sufficient of itself to warrant injustice, by shutting shut out the light of evidence.

An A confessed self-confessed accomplice in a
crime of the , is admitted to give testimony by
which if credited his confederate associate in guilt will be subjected to loss of life capital
punishment, and on such terms that by mendacity he
may save his life, which by veracity he may lose it.
Life being thus to be preserved by mendacity the reward of falshood it is scarce scarce
worth mentioning an addition
a sort of anticlimax that to the offer of this reward is frequently added
that of a some dozen times greater than as ever offered
to an innocent man for engaging to risk his life enlisting his in the condition of a
Soldier in the public service.


Identifier: | JB/091/301/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.

Date_1

1808-03-01

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

091

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

301

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

no exclusion of evidence on the ground of improbity

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

th 1806

Marginals

Paper Producer

andre morellet

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1806

Notes public

ID Number

29297

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