JB/035/090/003

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If, for argument sake it be uncertain whether the case is that there is no legal definition of a libel, or whether the case is that there is a legal definition of a libel but such a one as is in
compatible with liberty in manner above mentionedby Jury still more clearlyat liberty in point of conscience and it is stillmore clearly thus Duty as well as interest to act as if there were no more law constitutingthe publication of a libel making a libel anoffence, and in consequence in the case of every such provocation a verdict of not guilty.

If it be the opinion of a Jury
man, as it is mine, that there exists nothing on this subject which is entitled to this appellation denomination of a law or rule of law, he may not only without any breach of his oath join in every in giving a verdict of not guilty, but and he is bound by his oath to do so, or to join in finding a special verdict.

If it be his opinion that there laws or rule of law, but that law or rule of law is incompatible with the opinion of politi
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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	090	Info in main headings field
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10683
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