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20 July 1808 + 6
Vouchers not the best
evidence
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1. As to the predilection in forms of Vouchers.
A circumstance remarkable enough, and that seems
Turning to the list of the Commissioners, the Accountant
to turn some clause to the attention of the Commissioners
observes upon the list the names of two Gentlemen of the
in general, who but more in a turn particular manner
Bar, known to him by the which before
<add> to those <add> among them whose conceptions concerning the rules of evidence, and the comparative regard due to the different in which it may happen to an article of evidence from the same source to be prosecuted, can not have been formed in in any other school than that of the great Courts at Westminster is, that the sort of evidence for in favour of which such marks <add> totems marks of predilection has have manifested themselves, is precisely the sort of evidence, which, if tendered by itself would not, in any one of these trust, in Westminster Hall find so much as admittance: the rejection been having for its grounds the
a appointment to the judicial office they had command at his
attained in that branch of the profession if the
From By whatsoever opinions, if by from any , the system in question
may have received countenance he is confident that
in the by in no such opinion as that of of their two
learned gentlemen would could any such complexion system be
The sort of evidence which according to the complexion
as in the cases in to which it is applicable if not the
only admissible evidence, or that without which all other evidence is sufficient, or at least at best suspicious, is
precisely the sort of evidence, which if tendered by
itself, would not, unless exept except as against the party individual has when
the declaration expressed by it was tender unless
by other evidence of the sort on that which
in comparison of it is by the same system to which
a degree undervalued - not these but under a
of conditions and restrictions, be received in any
branch of judic in Westminster hall word
in any Court of Judication unless the Audit Office has an exception and these for the two
manifest and well known reason, viz viz. that if
the two great its <add> not being provided with either of </add> checks to falsehood, the , <add> viz.
oath and cross examination as above mentioned.
the , as securities for that
completeness, which qualities required in evidence <add> in which the of
to justice the ends of depends the sanction of an oath,
including eventual punishment as for perjury, and
the of cross examination, no such
ever goes by the term of a Voucher is ever, of itself
provided with either much less with both.
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Identifier: | JB/122/325/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 122. |
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Recto"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property. |
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Andre Morellet |
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1806 |
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See note to letter 1986, vol. 7 |
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