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<head>Punishment in alienam perforiam</head> <note>Inf.<lb/> | |||
Incompetency<lb/> | |||
False testimony not<lb/> | |||
mischievous unless<lb/> | |||
it misleads</note><lb/> | |||
<p>the account he gives of the matter would <add>rather</add> mislead<lb/> | |||
those who are to judge that set them right.<lb/> | |||
I say mislead the judges: I do not say be<lb/> | |||
a false one: for whether it be true or not, is what<lb/> | |||
to the purposes of justice is a matter of indifference.<lb/> | |||
The point is for them to [be enabled to] form such<lb/> | |||
a notion of the fact in dispute as shall prove a true <lb/> | |||
one: by what means they come at it is a matter.<lb/> | |||
He would committ Perjury indeed: but that is<lb/> | |||
quite another evil: and an evil for which there is<lb/> | |||
another and more proper remedy than that of<lb/> | |||
<add>prematurely</add> repelling for his evidence. His want of veracity therefore<lb/> | |||
is no objection to him unless he <add>has the <del>to the</del> faculty</add> <del>professes such a</del><lb/> | |||
of maintaining th the last such a degree of <del>pleas</del> consistency<lb/> | |||
and plausibility as shall enable hime to<lb/> | |||
conceal it.</p> | |||
Punishment in alienam perforiam Inf.
Incompetency
False testimony not
mischievous unless
it misleads
the account he gives of the matter would rather mislead
those who are to judge that set them right.
I say mislead the judges: I do not say be
a false one: for whether it be true or not, is what
to the purposes of justice is a matter of indifference.
The point is for them to [be enabled to] form such
a notion of the fact in dispute as shall prove a true
one: by what means they come at it is a matter.
He would committ Perjury indeed: but that is
quite another evil: and an evil for which there is
another and more proper remedy than that of
prematurely repelling for his evidence. His want of veracity therefore
is no objection to him unless he has the to the faculty professes such a
of maintaining th the last such a degree of pleas consistency
and plausibility as shall enable hime to
conceal it.
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rationale of punishment |
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punishment in alienam personam |
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incompetency |
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jeremy bentham |
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