 | William Paley - 1806 - 502 Seiten
...other maxim, which deserves a similar examination, is this, " that it is better that ten guilty parsons escape, than that one innocent man should suffer."...If by saying it is better, be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot be. maintained. The security of civil life,... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 456 Seiten
...confronted with opposite probabilities. The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this : — " That it is better that " ten guilty persons escape,...If by saying it is better, be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot be maintained. The security of civil life,... | |
 | William Paley - 1811 - 540 Seiten
...confronted with opposite probabilities. The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this — " That it is better that ten guilty persons escape,...If by saying it is better, be meant that it is more for the publick advantage, the proposition, I think', cannot be maintained. The security of civil life,... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 Seiten
...confronted with opposite probabilities. The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this : — " That it is better that ten guilty persons escape,...If by saying it is better, be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot be maintained. The security of civil life,... | |
 | William Paley - 1824 - 472 Seiten
...probabilities. The other maxim, which deserves a similar examination is this : — " That it is better that tea guilty persons escape, than that one innocent man...If by saying it is better, be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot he maintained. The security of civil life,... | |
 | William Paley - 1825 - 502 Seiten
...confronted with opposite probabilities. The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this:—" That it is better that ten guilty persons escape,...If by saying it is better be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot be maintained. The security of civil life,... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 584 Seiten
...the For imif.v, all presumptive evidence of l.-kmv should be admitted cautiously ; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. And [ 359 ] sir Matthew Hale in particular1 lays down two rules most prudent and necessary... | |
 | Sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 576 Seiten
...tha FOURTHLY, all presumptive evidence of felony should be admitted cautiously ; for the law holds, that it is better that ten guilty persons escape, than that one innocent suffer. And C 359 ] sir Matthew Hale in particular1 lays down two rules most prudent and necessary... | |
 | William Paley - 1830 - 430 Seiten
...confronted with opposite probabilities. The other maxim which deserves a similar examination is this — 'That it is better that ten guilty persons escape,...one innocent man should suffer.' If by saying it is belter, be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot be maintained.... | |
 | William Paley - 1831 - 624 Seiten
...with opposite probabilities. The other maxim, which deserves a similar examination, is this : — " slator : and if it appear to be recited with an intentional application to one part of the law, it saving it is belter, be meant that it is more for the public advantage, the proposition, I think, cannot... | |
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