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For the most powerful individual in the state
will be cautious of committing any flagrant invasion
of another's rights, when he knows that
the fact of his oppression must be examined and
decided by twelve indifferent men, not appointed
till the hour of trial; and that, when ever the
fact is ascertained, the law must of course redress
it. No such thing — the mere lodging of the decision
of the fact in such hands is not worth a straw:
the application of the redress must be lodged in the
same hands for the purpose here in question or
the decision might as well be in any other and the
fact is that in certain cases this conjunction actually
has place. What would it have availed Mr Wilkes
that the question of fact decision of the whether he had been apprehended
by a warrant or no from the Earls of
Egremont and Halifax, Secretaries of State was
in the hands of a Jury, even throwing into the same
hands the question of law into the bargain: the
redress was also in their hands, and the plaintiff in their
hands got it was £4000: in Lord Mansfield's it from Lord Mansfield he
would have been would have got a shilling.

Identifier: | JB/035/071/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	035	Main Headings	constitutional code; evidence; procedure code
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	10664
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