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Blackstone's ratio
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the saying that “It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that 1 innocent suffer”
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- Instance of
- legal maxim
- Author
- William Blackstone
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- published in
- Commentaries on the Laws of England
- Commons category
- Blackstone's ratio
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