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July 1810 3
Fallacies ad judicium. Ch. Cause and Obstacle Confounders
Note
Judges'
24 or 4(a)
For an example of the
profit reaped by English
Judges from testimonial
perjury & the encouragement
given to it by
the institution of Motion
Causes
See Scotch Reform
Lett.1. Devices.
2. Affidavit the only
form in which evidence
is received in these
causes, its tendency
to produce perjury.
3. 1. No man being
compellable to give
evidence in this shape
none but biased evidence
is thus admitted
4. 2. To this biased
evidence the check of
cross examination is
not permitted to be opposed
5. 3. A man offering
to depose vivâ-voce
subject to cross examination
would not be
admitted.
p.1.
6 Of the unfitness of
evidence in this shape
to the purposes of truth
& justice, full consciousness
continually declared
by all lawyers including
all Judges
7. Shapes in which
this profit is reaped
1. Ease: viz. by saving
of the time & attention
that would be demanded
by vivâ-voce examination
& cross examination:
instead of
observations from obsequious
friends & associates
testimony of frequently
ignorant & low-lived
witnesses.
p2.
24 or 4(a) continued
8. 2. Money viz by
fees received on affidavit
only, to their profit
either directly, or indirectly
through the
hands of nominees.
9. 3 Ease to their confederates
the men of
finance, by taxes confined
to evidence in
this written form.
p2.
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