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3 June 1808
3. The third course is manifestly the simplest.
 Unfortunately the same cause circumstance  which renders it useful
 conduces to the interest general of the  in respect of the end of
 justice - renders the acceptance of it proportionally improbable.
It makes none of that business which would
 be so soon to be made by either of the others: and
 by that commotion is rendered adverse to the only interest
 which hitherto ever yet has been - or it appears to be at all
 in a way to be, [] regarded as entitled to
 a preference in the arrangement of the system of procedure.
Th Employ in the first instance on every occasion that number
 which to the lieges in the character of jurymen is least
 burthensome: if either part party be dissatisfied with
 a verdict thus delivered, there will be and not till then will be the time time enough
 for giving increase to the numbers, and with it to the
 aggregate of the burthen imposed in this shape upon the
 .
Thus in English law, as it stood before the time of the
 Commonwealth, twelve was the number of the Jurymen
 sitting in the first instance. When under the name 
 of  a new trial took place, a new trial
 which on condition was to be had for asking that the which  liberty and property
 of these twelve jurymen should be added put in jeopardy
 and added to the state, then four and twenty was the
 number, and at the the rank same time the rank, the rank of
 knights.
| Identifier: | JB/035/248/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35. | |||
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| 1808-06-03 | not numbered | ||
| 035 | constitutional code; evidence; procedure code | ||
| 248 | |||
| 001 | |||
| text sheet | 1 | ||
| recto | e10 | ||
| jeremy bentham | |||
| 10841 | |||