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JURIESAfter the Pains I have taken in so many instances in the course of this work, to furnish inculcate
the necessity of abandoning in the score of impracticability many points of which catch the eye by their obvious and
real utility: I have some reason to hope I shall not be accused of a vast propensity to
every thing branch to a parallelism with Ideal & unattainable Rectitude or try in grasping at unattainable perfection to let go that - - - - - degree I have of good order which is in within our reach This necessity I have seen [&] I have acknowledged
& [I have inculcated]. the necessity of assuring satisfying ourselves before we conclude finally for
the extirpation of an evil of two points, both that the means we employ for the purpose are not themselves
of such a nature as to be productive of a greater; : that the evil question is not itself the necessary
& only antidote to a greater.

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The Evil I am here about to consider, & which the abolition of which is one object of my
endevors, is the practise become habitual on Juries& & sanctioned by the tacit approbation if not by the encouragement of Judges of knowingly false verdicts in the
following cases. [already commented & observed upon in their [respective] places.
1. In that of Suicide - that the deceased did the fatal Act in a fit of Lunacy, which
he was known to have done deliberately in his right mind.

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In this indeed the practise is not entirely uniform, & from it's not being so is one
of the very few if not the only one in which the conduct of this Tribunal is not free
from suspicions of corruption. 2. In that of Deodands; when the Value of the thing forfeited is reduced to nothing,
by that part only of a animate & inanimate where altogether concerned in the production of
the death of a man which was in actual contact with him
to plain & obvious Truth moving to his death

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3. In that of Larceny - When Juries will pronounce in their verdict a thing taken
to be not worth one Shilling which thing & every body shall see to be worth fifty

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Folio number	169	Info in main headings field	juries
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