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CRIT. JUR .CRIM.

Law must at all events be made, it may be true
that it is better it should be made by the House
of Lords, than by an inferior Court: but what is
best of all is that there should be no ex-post-facto
Law at all [should be made by any body.]
[For the purpose of prevention] An ex-post-facto
Law is of no use. The What is past can not be prevented:
and the what is future may as well be presented
by another Law that has no such retrospective
quality.

Nothing can be of greater importance than that the
provinces of the Judge and of the Legislator should be
kept distinct. Better the were it for Law remain as it is
at present, with all its numerous imperfections on its head,
than to receive amendment at their hands.

Not that a man by being a Judge is the less fit
for a Legislator: on the contrary no man so likely
to be fit as he. No man who has such good opportunities
of being acquainted with [the detail of] those
[defects] imperfections of the Law which want correcting.
Tis the provinces functions that should be distinct
and not the persons. The same person who acting
by establishing a rule in the character of a Judge Legislator shall do eminent
service, shall by establishing the same rule
in the character capacity of a Judge do infinite mischief. The
reason is that by establishing a new rule in the
of the old ones he shakes their authority, and therewith
that of his own. When so employ'd he is like the
strong man in scripture, important to do good, but
all


Identifier: | JB/159/263/002
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Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

159

Main Headings

punishment

Folio number

263

Info in main headings field

crit. jur. crim

Image

002

Titles

punishment - talio - where inapplicable / stare decisis

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d101 / d102 / d103 / d104

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[gr with crown] propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

54086

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