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20 July 1808 + 6
Vouchers not the best
evidence

6
1. As to the predilection in forms of Vouchers.
A circumstance remarkable enough, and that seems
Turning to the list of the Commissioners, the Accountant
to turn some clause to the attention of the Commissioners
observes upon the list the names of two Gentlemen of the
in general, who but more in a more particular manner
Bar, known to him by the which before
to those <add> among them whose conceptions concerning the rules of evidence,
and the comparative
regard due
to the different
shapes in which it
may happen to an article
of evidence from the
same source to be
prosecuted, can <add> not have
been formed in
in <add> any other school
than that of the great
Courts at Westminster
is, that the sort
of evidence for
in favour of which
such marks <add> totems marks of
predilection has <add> have
been <add> manifested themselves, is
precisely the sort
of evidence, which,
if tendered by itself
would not, in any
<add> one of these trust, in Westminster
Hall find
so much as admittance:
the
rejection been
having for its
grounds the
a appointment to the judicial office they had command at his
attained in that branch of the profession of the law

From By whatsoever opinions, if by from any, the system in question
may have received countenance he is confident that
in the by in no such opinion as that of which of their two
learned gentlemen would could any such complexion system be

The sort of evidence which according to the complexion
as in the cases in to which it is applicable if not the
only admissible evidence, or that without which all other
evidence is sufficient, or at least at best suspicious, is
precisely the sort of evidence, which if tendered by
itself, would not, unless exept except</add></add> as against the party individual has when
the declaration expressed by it was tender unless
by other evidence of the description same sort as that which
in comparison of it is by the same system to which
a degree undervalued - not these but under a multitude
of conditions and restrictions, be received in any
branch of judic in Westminster Hall word
in any Court of Judication unless the Audit Office has an exception and these for the two
manifest and well known reason, viz viz. that if
its <add> not being unprovided with either of</add> the two great necessities checks to falsehood, viz. , on which
<add>oath and cross examination as above mentioned.
the , as securities for that correctness and
completeness, which qualities required in evidence <add> in which the of
to the ends of justice depends the sanction of an oath,
including eventual punishment as for perjury, and
the scrutiny of cross examination, no such
ever goes by the term of a Voucher is ever, of itself
provided with either much less with both.

Identifier: | JB/122/325/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122.
Date_1	1808-07-20	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	122	Main Headings	Panopticon
Folio number	325	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	D6 / E6
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	See note to letter 1986, vol. 7	ID Number	001
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