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Indirect Legislation

§ Knowledge

history of the barbarous ages and you find perjuries
so abundant See Barrington's Obs. on the
Statutes.
that chance was looked upon trusted to
as a safer guide than testimony: they have become
less and less frequent and when committed less and
less availing in proportion as the art of detection
has been improved by the encreasing sagacity
of the advocate and the judge. They will be less
frequent still, when certain obstacles to the efficacy
of an oath, and certain imperfections in the mode
of investigating truth shall at length have been
removed. See §. . . .

In the favouring then or setting up this counter-knowledge then
if so it may be termed, or favouring it consists one of the capital
resources of the legislator. What there is to
be done under this head will be consider'd in
another chapter section. §

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Identifier: | JB/087/097/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	097	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27622
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