6 July 1804

Procedure & Evidence

Evils causes

4th order

2 Fallaciousness

II. Real Evidence

I. Natural Causes

1. Influence of the motive of indolence (love of ease - aversion to labour) in pervading a man, who has in custody or power an article capable of serving as a source of real evidence, from preserving it in a state, in which, in that character correct inferences may be drawn from it.

2. Influence of the several causes of mendacity, tending induce the ---- as above of a source of real evidence to falsify it; or to induce any man to falsify and manufacture any object into a source of fallacious real evidence.

II. Factitious causes - 1. Negative

1. Omission on the part of the legislator to make arrangements for the preservation of real objects in safe custody, from the time that they have been discovered to be capable of serving as sources of real evidence.

2. Omission on the part of the legislator to make arrangements for the punishment of forgery of real /in regard to real, as in regard to/, as of written evidence.