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Juries
Beaufory

If any more more further argument can be wanting
in proof can be of the unfitness of this species of tribunal,
a more conclusive one can not be had could not be wished for than
what is afforded by the most professed and elaborate
argument I have been able to meet with
in favor of it.— A new branch is proposed
to be added to the Excise System: and the one of the two great
grievances in that system being the want of a
trial by Jury, great efforts are made by an
honourable gentleman, though on the ministerial
side to add in that instance an optional
clause, giving the defendant in a prosecution
for smuggling the option of a trial in that mode.

Three objections are made to the summary mode
of procedure in use in cases of Excise: 1 the reward
given to the informer: 2. the insufficiency alledged shortness of
the notice given to to the Defendant by the summons: and the
uncertainty whether it in each case whether in any given case it has
answered its end: If These three considerations is
composed the ground and the sole ground doubly configured
for changing the trial before single commonplace Judges under




Identifier: | JB/035/074/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.

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035

Main Headings

constitutional code; evidence; procedure code

Folio number

074

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d1 / d2 / d3 / d4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]

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Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

10667

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