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Punishment in alienam personam

Of the Law were known to be in this behalf as it hasbeen said to be,
the nation wouldmust long ago have been continued a scene of
lust, cruelty and rapine: but it happens here as it
will sometimes happen in other instances, one mischief
operates as a palliative to another: the extreme
absurdity of the Law is veiled by men's utter
ignorance of its contents.

Let us reverse the tablesLet us turn back & look in the other side. What then would be Little danger
from the admission
of promiscuous evidence not
so great as it
seems to be
the mischiefdanger of admitting the testimony of personsa man thus stimatized - I see none: none at least that
can for a moment stand in competition with the
mischief on the other side. The "But the person so stigmatized
does not deserve to be believed?"-

Identifier: | JB/141/147/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 141.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	141	Main Headings	rationale of punishment
Folio number	147	Info in main headings field	punishment in alienam personam
Image	001	Titles	incompetency
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f60 / f61
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	48364
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