★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 9: | Line 9: | ||
by which any more <add>purity</add><lb/> who either already <sic>proffesses</sic> or even <unclear>continues</unclear> <add>manages so as</add> to gain<lb/> a single individual <add>to seek to <unclear>prepare</unclear></add> a single individual out of twelve jurymen,<lb/> may command the verdict. To its other <gap/><lb/> this <unclear>function</unclear> <add>inessential</add> of the institution adds therefore most of being<lb/> an incentive <add><gap/></add> to <gap/>, and that of the most<lb/> powerful kind. </p> | by which any more <add>purity</add><lb/> who either already <sic>proffesses</sic> or even <unclear>continues</unclear> <add>manages so as</add> to gain<lb/> a single individual <add>to seek to <unclear>prepare</unclear></add> a single individual out of twelve jurymen,<lb/> may command the verdict. To its other <gap/><lb/> this <unclear>function</unclear> <add>inessential</add> of the institution adds therefore most of being<lb/> an incentive <add><gap/></add> to <gap/>, and that of the most<lb/> powerful kind. </p> | ||
<p><!-- indent --> | <p><!-- indent --> | ||
A story <add>which</add> current upon this occasion, and the<lb/> design of which when related has commonly been that<lb/> | A story <add>which</add> current upon this occasion, and the<lb/> design of which when related has commonly been that<lb/> of recommending these factors to public favor in the character<lb/> of a <unclear>security</unclear> to the innocent <add>Englishmens lives.</add> an institution <add>among <gap/></add> <lb/> <add>of the <gap/> <gap/> nation</add> friendly and conducive to the ends of justice, may <del>have</del><lb/> <add>in this reason</add><lb/> true or false, serve the purpose of illustration.</p> | ||
<p><!-- indent --> | |||
A man is indicted for murder. He is excused,<lb/> but by a regular concurrence of circumstances, the<lb/> <gap/>, being <add>chiefly</add> of the circumstantial kind bears <add>is known to bear</add> strong<lb/> against him. <add>By the <unclear>form</unclear> <add>influence</add> of the <gap/> circumstances</add> The real author of the death is<lb/> screened from <gap/>. This <unclear>common</unclear> tortures him.<lb/> His death howsoever produced, sat heavy on it: and<lb/> now the death of another person, altogether innocent,<lb/> and with whom he himself had had no quarrel,<lb/> is about to be added to the load. What (says he to himself)<lb/> shall I do to save him? - I have hit upon it.<add>&</add> | |||
</p> | |||
<!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> | <!-- DO NOT EDIT BELOW THIS LINE --> | ||
{{Metadata:{{PAGENAME}}}} | {{Metadata:{{PAGENAME}}}} | ||
27 May 1808 8
- The case is - that under in this state of things it is
in the power of any single individual in the station
of Juryman to command a verdict, and there to the
conviction of all harbour a false one, there by the
voluntary perjury of one, forcing eleven others to perjure
themselves. producing the involuntary perjury
How then is a receipt, nor and that one unobvious one
by which any more purity
who either already proffesses or even continues manages so as to gain
a single individual to seek to prepare a single individual out of twelve jurymen,
may command the verdict. To its other
this function inessential of the institution adds therefore most of being
an incentive to , and that of the most
powerful kind.
A story which current upon this occasion, and the
design of which when related has commonly been that
of recommending these factors to public favor in the character
of a security to the innocent Englishmens lives. an institution among
of the nation friendly and conducive to the ends of justice, may have
in this reason
true or false, serve the purpose of illustration.
A man is indicted for murder. He is excused,
but by a regular concurrence of circumstances, the
, being chiefly of the circumstantial kind bears is known to bear strong
against him. By the form <add>influence of the circumstances</add> The real author of the death is
screened from . This common tortures him.
His death howsoever produced, sat heavy on it: and
now the death of another person, altogether innocent,
and with whom he himself had had no quarrel,
is about to be added to the load. What (says he to himself)
shall I do to save him? - I have hit upon it.&
|
Identifier: | JB/035/176/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35. |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
|
1808-05-27 |
|||
|
035 |
constitutional code; evidence; procedure code |
||
|
176 |
|||
|
001 |
|||
|
text sheet |
1 |
||
|
recto |
d8 / e8 |
||
|
jeremy bentham |
th 1806 |
||
|
andre morellet |
|||
|
1806 |
|||
|
10769 |
|||
