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CERTAINTY. PROCEDURE. LAW & FACT.

It is right of advantage that the power of deciding on questions of law, & the power of deciding on
the question of fact, should be vested in separate hands: if those two powers are confou
in the hands of those to whom the latter power alone properly belongs

If in the hands of those to whom the former appertains the restraint is gone which cons
in the consciousness that the Law declared against this or that man invest beLaw
against all other and themselves -. what

What verges towards this inconvenience is the habit of too minute generalisatings axiomatization
stretching the bounds of Law too far, whereby it happens that the rules laid dow
are so narrow as not scarce to take in any more others than the precise case on the occasion ofwhich occasioned there
which they were pronounced. - This as to the arbitrary <unclear>power it gives to the Judge, is in it gives to partialitotics may become
tantamount to the power of determination of the matter of fact superadded to that of Law.

The power of the share taken by Jury in the complex decision secures [to] it it's aception among with
the people - The Legislative definition<add>declaration according to which it is framed whereby it is guided</add>unclear>prev</unclear> definitive power of the Legislation] [supplied where def dificient
by the Judges, Court it's uniformity with the rest of the system i:e: it's general relative ability; th
power of the Judges of setting it aside & sending the question to be retried, it's particular pa
utility.

When you have compleatedperfected your definition of the C so as (as near as inmay be
to take in all the mischief and nothing more than the mischief then have yo
done all that there is for the Law to do — The Judge has nothing mor
to do (and surely it is enough) than to superintend the order - and conduct of the procee-ding
to keep the Council within their duty, to interrogate the living witnesses where re thinks
proper, to examine & explain the dead inanimate evidence

Identifier: | JB/050/081/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	081	Info in main headings field	certainty procedure law & fact
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	16072
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