JB/097/178/001

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I lay aside as a most useless and mischievous
institution as it stands on the footing it stands upon in England at present in its
present footing, that of Grand Juries.

It is useless because being design the pretended
use of it being to prevent vexation it is no
bar to vexation in the cases where vexation is
infinitely the most grievous and the most to be
apprehended.

It is of no use in mos offences short of
felony, because frustrated rendered of no effect in their cases by informations
and attachments. It particular it is
for that reason of no use in the case of libels
as a safeguard in the quality of to the liberty of the press.

It is of no use in offences of the rank of this
felony, because in those instances + + it never is or can be applied late after the mischief
which it pretends to obviate is incurred before
this pretended remedy can be applied. The of
is commenced by committing the Defendant A man
is committed to prison in the first instance
months before the trial or perhaps a year
before the trial: and the day before the trial, is
the same Day it is put to the Grand Jury to
say whether he ought to be prosecuted.

Identifier: | JB/097/178/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 97.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	097	Main Headings
Folio number	178	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	31562
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