★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
1831 July 21
Review
§.6. Table of some legal
Chicaneries
2. Small debtia
5
Name of Plaintiffs
initiatory document
under Ordinara
Statement under
Smalldebtia Plaint
Now for some more agreeable variation produced
under the inspiration of Chicaneries Small debtia.
Suggested by Chicanerie Ordinara we have seen per
for the initiatory document a Statement called a Statement
No says Chicanerie Smalldebtia, in my all our decisions
a statement shall be stiled a Plaint — how much better more effectual
(cries she twisting her fan) this as a security for justice
6
So first statement on
Defendant's side —
under Ordinara
answer under
Smalldebtia Plea
Then again, Ordinara knowing no better, when she
gives direction about the final statement to be made on the Defendants
side, bids him call it an answer: very well, if
that's her fancy, let him do his will with her own: to
my mind the word plea looks and sounds best: what my defendant
given in in the first instance, he shall a Plea.
7
Then Ordinara
goes on with the
reply and rejoinder
Why stop there why
not go on with
surrejoinder, rebutter
surrebutter & so on
as long as money
lasts
Then again Ordinara goes on to spin spinning after the her
answer, a reply, and after the reply, a rejoinder.
A rejoinder indeed? I wonder how she comes to stop
there. I wonder What was the matter with her she did not go on to call for as her
Great Great Grandmother did used to do for a
Surrejoinder, and after the Surrejoinder
Rebutter, and after the Surrebutter Rebutter a Surrebutter,
and so on as long as the money lasted. Well! all
this might be right may for ought I know when the
sum drawn for by the Bill or not was as high as a hundred pound.
But when it is for no more than £5 Plaint and Answer
so they have the proper names to them are to my mind
quite enough. As to Reply and Rejoinder which for offering
, when it won't be which to buy them. Plaint
Answer together will be quite strong enough to make them weight the bottom of better pockets, where the sum fought for is no more than £5:
I'll be bound for them.
Identifier: | JB/004/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
1830-07-21 |
5-7 |
||
004 |
lord brougham displayed |
||
135 |
review |
||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
c1 |
||
jeremy bentham |
j whatman turkey mill 1829 |
||
jonathan blenman |
|||
1829 |
|||
2056 |
|||