JB/051/014/002

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EVIDENCE

rendering his testimony of a transition [To a man's serving of as a witness Evidence] 3 things
are necessary. [to an Witness evidence] 1st [Physical
power or rather] Knowledge. 2d Legal
Power. Competency + + One might add Physical Power. viz what is taken away by Sickness, Imprisonment &c 3d. Motive or Inducement
The 1st is what the Law must finds in a man.
the 2d what it should leaves him. & the 3d
what it gives becomes sometimes necessary that it should set [often] sets] itself to work to
give him.

[The 1st is out of the reach of the Law to give
or to take away]

Its endeavours to give measures for giving a man the last, should
be subordinate to its precautions for leaving
him the 2d. Such is the dexterity with which it has often happend that this business has been conducted If he has not competency,
there is an end of him as a witness.
Thus it is is the way with unskillful workmen to pull down while they build with one hand while they to pull down with another. But a motive may not be wanting to him,
tho' the Law should fail to give him one: because
he may have one already of his own.

Identifier: | JB/051/014/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	014	Info in main headings field	procedure evidence. competency. 3 requisites in a witness
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with vryheyt motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	16179
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