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INDICTMENTS.

The doctrine of Indictments a conspiracy against Common Sense.
I never can look into the doctrine of Indictments without repeated recurring indignation 2 & sorrow concern 1 - indignant
at the continued perpetual insult which it gives to the common Sense of every Englishman, bringing
Indictments should be so drawn as that a person knowing the Law on that behalf may have to say if this be true the accused cannot but be guilty. of some one crime <add> as specified by the Law </add> this means under in what is said under Definitions p.1. qu.v. And that the accused may be appraised of all those circumstances which it would be natural for him to dispute - Every nicity beyond this is frivolous & mischievous. These principles therefore will draw the Line between such objections to the forms of Indictments as should be mentioned, & such as should be repulsed.
the Law into general & so far as it regards that matter well - merited contempt: sorrow concern for at the unhappy race of suffering unto
which I imagine & see springing up under the shadow of that doctrine, invited to all villainous by the prospect
of impunity - The intelligence of this weakness of the Law is too interesting to all who mean to be to
escape them; a pressing & obvious interest instructing men in certain points who are instructed in no others:
They know not indeed previously from what quarter will that cloud will arise which is to
screen them from forever or for a time the [eye] sword of Justice: but they know it is suffered not what that it may arise: they know how L
often it will obey the spell of a Golden Talisman: and that many if distinction has
Warned Scared at by the Chink - Reason takes her Flight from the Judgment Seat:
indeed overtaken most of their predecessors, multitudes of them have died not because they
Jargon reigns triumphant [ & alone] & enjoys the success of in the succession of offerings which follow each other often than many a dull hour
were guilty, but because they were poor - Senseless indeed must be that argument
which urged with gravity & confidence by the Advocate, & embellished by a few apposite aphorisms

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on the topic of Humanity, will not procure a delay from Judges, that compelled by
precedent & accustomed by Habit to pay daily attention to formal objections on matter of time the most frivolous & the
most foreign to the merits of the point in question.

When forms of indictment are thus reduced to a certainty they may be printed leaving blanks for the particular specification.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	139	Info in main headings field	indictments
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	cc1
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16130
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