The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Том 6W. Tait, 1843 |
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afforded altogether applied article of evidence brought to view capable CHAPTER character circumstances considered contract correctness and completeness court of equity deception decision degree of persuasion delay dence depends disconformity discourse effect efficient cause employed ends of justice English law evil exclusion exhibited existence expense expressed extrajudicial fact in question false falsehood given ground hand improbability incorrectness individual instance instrument judge judicatory judicature judicial lative legislator less liable mass matter of fact mendacity ment mind mischief misdecision mode moral motive nature neral ness object occasion official operation particular party perjury person plaintiff preappointed evidence present principal fact probative fact probative force produced punishment purpose racter relation rendered respect rule sanction scriptitious shape side sidered sinister interest sion sort species of evidence suit or cause supposed taken testimony things tion trustworthiness truth vexation viva voce whatsoever word written evidence
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Стр. 255 - For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Стр. 146 - The discretion of a judge is the law of tyrants: it is always unknown ; it is different in different men; it is casual, and depends upon constitution, temper, and passion. In the best, it is oftentimes caprice ; in the worst, it is every vice, folly, and passion to which human nature is liable.
Стр. 329 - ... much more the effect of use and practice. I do not deny that natural disposition may often give the first rise to it; but that never carries a man far without use and exercise, and it is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind as well as those of the body to their perfection.
Стр. 271 - Where no one is deceived ; which is the case in parables, fables, novels, jests, tales to create mirth, ludicrous embellishments of a story, where the declared design of the speaker is not to inform, but to divert...
Стр. 42 - Committee of the House of Commons, appointed to inquire into the Bankrupt Laws ; and i This and the two preceding motions were lost by large majorities.
Стр. 209 - In this question of identity — in this question of nomenclature disguised under scientific forms, we see a question of evidence.* The first question in natural religion is no more than a question of evidence. From the several facts that have come under my senses relative to the several beings that have come under my senses, have I or have I not sufficient ground to be persuaded of the existence of a being distinct from all those beings — a being whose agency is the cause of the existence of all...
Стр. 419 - ... or judges of the King's Bench; but before whom? Themselves? or their subordinates of the Common Pleas ?] and, thereupon, the surmise will be tried, and if found to be so, damages will be given ; and upon such a recovery, a peremptory writ commandingthe same.
Стр. 311 - The one is capable of being made more or less binding upon all men : the other upon such only as are of a particular way of thinking. The same formulary, which undertakes to draw down upon a man the resentment of the Deity in case of contravention, does actually, in the same event, draw down upon him (as experience proves) the resentment and contempt of mankind. The religious tie is that which stands forth, which makes all the show, which...
Стр. 426 - I say the bond fide witness : for, in the case of a witness who by an adverse interrogator is really looked upon as dishonest, this is not the proper course, nor is it taken with him. For bringing to light the falsehood of a witness really believed to be mendacious, the more suitable, or rather the only suitable, course, is to forbear to express the suspicion he has inspired.
Стр. 175 - The first, therefore, and most signal rule in relation to evidence, is this, That a man must have the utmost evidence the nature of the fact is capable of ; for the design of the law is to come to rigid demonstration in matters of right, and there can be no demonstration of a fact without the best evidence that the nature of the thing is capable of...