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13 March 1807

2. I acknowledge most explicitly In regard to actual
practice, and actually existing jurisprudential law, in so far
as jurisprudential law is susceptible of existence – acknowledge recognize
most explicitly, and ever since I first began to
know the meaning of the word Guilty have never ceased to
recognize that in criminal matters suits including likewise
such suits of a civil nature in which the verdict for the when in favour of
plaintiff is expressed by the word Guilty the Jury ever
have been and therefore in point of law ought to be judge of
the matter of law as well as of the fact as often as they
have thought fit or shall think fit to be so. and by such that viz And
were this arrangement was to my view ever so pernicious an one,
if it in the character of established law I should no more think of
denying the existence of it than I should think of denying
the existence of the share trade or any other article of
jurisprudential law that I was complaining of in the character
of an abuse.

3. But were instead of being so perfectly convinced of
its being actual law, if I were were I ever as perfectly convinced of
the contrary, my wish would be, and as earnest as that
of any one as ever be to see it made so: and that thus be. In regard to that part of the criminal law which for this simple reason among others; viz: that if in those points
concerns the subject of libels the law is not intelligible to a
select portion of the people for such I even common forms
are still less, is it to the great body of the people who
at their peril of their lifesat the point of life are called upon to square their
ankell by it: and so far as it is unintelligible to them –
so far even as it fails of being understood by them – so far
as it incapable of answering any better purpose than that of
destroying them for not having done what was physically impossible.

Identifier: | JB/106/156/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	77-78
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	156	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e25
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34744
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