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18287 Novr. Feb.2

Ch. VII Probation & Evidence
S.18. Character Evidence
Procedure Penal Code. 8
Exclusion of character
evidence
Reason 1 The effect
not the of evidence of
habitual mendacity
not to produce exclusion
of a witness

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Art 8. Why in ordinary cases, put in this case an exclusion upon
character evidence? Answer. Reason.

1. For the reason as per 11. the effect of any
evidence ass even of habitual of mendacity will not be to produce
the exclusion of the individual in the capacity of a witness
side effect that of producing an opinion in affirma of
a corresponding degree of comparative untrustworthiness
in the part of his personal evidence

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Reason 2. Such evidence
only amounts to weak
circumstantial evidence

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Art.9.22. It follows For the species the utmost grand
that can be afforded will can not amount to any thing more than
or a weekly operating article of circumstantial evidence. It
follows not that because a man his attend wilful falshood
in cases where in cases of incidently no punishment would
how he would in any thing like as in equal degree to
so to do in a case in which by such mendacity to
would expose himself to the punishment appointed by the law
for that crown.

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Reason 3 11 Boundless
delay vexation & expence
the admission might be
made to produce

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Art. 10.3. Boundless is the delay, expence and
vexation that might which it would be in the power of a
malaside litigant of an evil conscious is to litigant
to necessitate of an unlimited facultyright of calling in evidence
for this purpose were established.

1. Boundless as to number
of witnesses called

1. Boundless the number of witnesses whose evidence
to called-in in the first instance: for the need would be
variable according to the importance of the matter in dispute, and
the difficulty attendant or the question of fact, with or without
other circumstance. Incompatible with any well grounded decision
on the question regarding evidence would be every attempt to
fix the allowable number of character-witnesses by general rule.

Identifier: | JB/052/372/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 52.
Date_1	1828-02-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-10
Box	052	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	372	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles	ratiocinative / ratiocinative / ratiocinative
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	17045
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