JB/057/303/001

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1827 * Oct. 12
Procedure Code

6 Preparatory Resolutions
(5 § No Oath

15
Of falsehood being
unpunishable unless
coupled with
an oath one consequence
is that when it is so coupled
it is not punished in one
case of out of a thousand

Of the arrangement by which falshood notwithstanding the
for it, as above is made unpunishable otherwise than when
by being coupled into an act of swearing it has been involved with
the name of perjury are is that even when after it is
marked with that appellation denomination it is ever punished to wit
punished it may be said without danger of in one instance
out of a thousand of those in which it is : in a larger
proportion of which cases that success that reward is received from
it for the purpose of which it is uttered, & is evil presented, because
it is not it is not prosecuted because in a larger
it may to send the largest proportion of the instance
in which the offence is committed, success in case of
is sure to be impossible. It is impossible when an to the
perjured witness, these not any more than one person
of giving testimony

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Hence the expense
of prosecuting so great
on that vast majority
of the population are
unable to defray it.

But supposing testimony ever so abundant, while success in prosecution is the expense
the expense to prosecution s vast and entire
so vast that a vast majority of the actual proportion are under a
compleat incapacity of defraying it: That this is what is given
to be lost by it: which except in instances so few and
to be consideration, nothing is to be get it, no redress, as
to compensate for the suffering of which the perjury <lb?> has been the cause.

Identifier: | JB/057/303/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1827-10-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	15-16
Box	057	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	303	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d6 / e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18633
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