JB/050/035/001

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CERTAINTY Procedure regular. - Non-appearance — Contumacy — Traverse — Confession.

A man against whom a charge is made , must either
answers to it or does not — If he answers to it,
by , if that which he says has any his answer to be pertinent , must amount either
to a confession or a denial

If he does not , it must be either because being
absent, he cannot, or being present, he will not.
In the prescription of Procedure convictions upon Statutes
slightly penal , no difficulty has ever been made
of considering either of these methods of behaviour
as tantamount to a confessions of
the suspected offences charged —

Only out of by Common Law kindness to the offender , for non-appearance ,
the way was to subject him to
a Punishment which was at least equal where to, & in all
most cases , superior to that which he could incur
by conviction , & was the same for one original
offence as for another v. 29. . 6 5 & 3 &.1. 4.7 — and — 3 for 1 16, 17 Specific convictions in place of Outlawry , — for continuancy

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to a Punishment , a thousand times worse
than the heaviest he could suffer by conviction.

Identifier: | JB/050/035/001"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	035	Info in main headings field	certainty procedure regular. non-appearance - contumacy - traverse - confession
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	16026
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