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CERTAINTY. EVIDENCE of convicts.

If it be said , the alarm of men would be universal
at finding themselves expend to suffer
by such evidence , I answer that this could would only
be in virtue of an opinion as universal that
such men evidence were not fit to be believed: in proportion
therefore as that opinion of the people was strong , the resolution
of the Juryis a part of that people
would be strong not to give credit to such
evidence — The mischief & the remedy would
grow up together.

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Great Difference where Evidence may be chosen aforehand,
& where it must be taken as it happens : in the
first case, strictness may be used [freely]

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EVIDENCE

Propose that Witnesses might be holden to Bail
ad testificandum on a proper Affidavit

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Note Perjury lightly treated

I have had the misfortune to seen Witnesses after the grossest Perjury
walk off [unmolested out of the court] without
any other concern than that only of not having
succeeded: pleasantries about at the Bar,
& fear also even from the Bench. as if it was well put , it was a bold attempt
but it would not do — be hamper'd himself here
- — - - — - - — - — — - — — there

All this has shocked me to the very Soul.

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Identifier: | JB/051/005/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field	certainty evidence of convicts
Image	001	Titles	note perjury lightly treated
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	16170
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