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PERJURY - Intensity of averment. 1 PERJURY. Intensity of averment. BR 1

According to Coke, it is not Perjury, if the deposition averment
be qualified with soften'd by such a qualification as "he thinketh
he remembereth, he believeth, or the like".

This is his opinion: and upon this the matter rests: for
I can find no judicial determination upon the point:
It is however a point of very great importance, & merits
to be settled in terms more precise, by an Authority
less equivocal, & as I conceive on a side the contrary
to that which he has taken.

It will be without difficulty allowed that there certainly not ought to be any way means that can be taken away left, consistently
with the protection of innocence, whereby a man called
upon to give his Testimony, whether concerning his own
act or situation, or another's, whereby,& meaning to aver
what is false or conceal what is true he may do it
without danger.

Now this he might allways do, by annexing these
qualifications to every article of his deposition, if such
a qualifications whensoever employed were to save the
from the pains of Perjury

And yet these qualifications he must oftenin a multitude of cases at least if

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	001	Info in main headings field	perjury intensity of averment
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	3
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ f1 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	14869
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