JB/107/320/002

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an instrument equally capable as usual
of being accommodated to the purpose of
either side, offers itself to his hand: "and
"we may take notice 1. that none of the
"Statutes of for amendment of
"errors extend to indictments or proceedings
"in criminal cases; 2. that in favour of
"life greater strictness has at all times been
"observed in every point of an Indictment
"not so much as in civili where
"life is not at stake. Sir Matthew Hale
"indeed complains that this strictness is
"grown to a blemish and inconvenience in
"the law and administration thereof; for
"that more offenders escape by the over easy
"ear given to exception in Indictments,
"than by their own innocence, and many
"times gross murders burglaries robberies
"and other heinous and crying offences
"remain unpunished by these unseemly
"niceties, to the reproach of the law, to
"the shame of the government to the
"encouragement of Villainy and to the dishonour

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Identifier: | JB/107/320/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 107.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings	law versus arbitrary power (a hatchet for dr paley's net)
Folio number	320	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::[simplified hanoverian royal arms] 1821]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1821
Notes public		ID Number	35311
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