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6 Feby 1809 Peines
Priteous matus! strictness! was there ever
such an abuse of words? Strictness? in what? in the execution
of the law? of the law that part of which is committed to the Judgejudicial
process to execute. no:-but in the application of the shameless
pretence system of preteds set up for breaking it.
"Ear over-easy"! "Strictness' (viz. such as above)
grown to be a blemish! as if there ever were a moment lend him a time
in which it was not a crime - nor act of contempt
against the legislation that one a crime had it not had legislation
with its deserts power been safer, would have drawn the author or authors actor or actors
with ignominy infamy from the bench.
Grown indeed to be a blemish - ? -Grown indeed? So then in itself
the practice, take that of eatingthe practice is right and necessary: and like eating becomes
wrong only by accident, as when a man becomes falls
glutton over eats himself, and makes himself sick:
A man who, whither in office or not in office, is attracted to
the Court judicatory living and acting under the authority and
under the very eyes of the Judges - a man thus situated (for as to intimacy of connection such was the case at that time and as to subjection such as the case still)
connected with these the Judges inserts into the instrument
of accusation some word which though [+] it transgresses
rule (for as rules in the subject leav would they they ever
make public or so much as frame) is by a discussion [+] it makes no difference whatsoever to the party accused, nor transgresses any
purely arbitrary pronounced to be wrong: and out of this
pretended error manufactured by eve of themselves, a practice they make
is made by them for breaking but which show miserable in practice:) running counter to the
declared will of the legislation, and giving impunity to a
malefactor when they bind enjoined by law the to punish
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law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net) |
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jeremy bentham |
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