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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.

Identifier: | JB/050/169/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 50.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	050	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	169	Info in main headings field	juries
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::j honig & zoonen [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	16160
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