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PERJURY - Intensity of averment.
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 or 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.
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