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Speaking of the course pursued under sham writs of error by the
Chief Justice of Kings Bench, Mr Bentham says, "The Official
custos morum of the nation concurred, with six hundred men in
the Year, in the defrauding so many creditors, by uttering so many
false pretences, by which he got so much a-piece; while for a fiftieth
part of the money obtained, each by a single false pretence, wretches
were hanged or transported, by this same guardian of the public moral
by scores and hundreds.
Rationale of judicial Evidence
4 v. 65
They are natural corruption both of morals and understanding:
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