JB/004/398/001

Click Here To Edit

4

1831 Nov 23.
Bankruptcy &c

In Boa Constrictor, you overlook the importance
to those who do not understand their business,
of obtaining the assistance of others to
do it for them.

I am as strong an advocate as you are
for preventing any delay in the administration
of justice, but it is a mockery to pretend to
do justice, and decide in such a manner
that the parties would have done as well
if they had decided their dispute by Lot. Great
as is the inconvenience suffered by the
suitor to whom justice is delayed, much
greater disappointment is suffered by 20 other
persons, who have purchased property under
the sanction of a rule considered to be well
established, and are prevented from selling it or are
liable to lose it, because the rule has been overturned
by a hasty decision – and a slighter but no unimportant
evil is felt by those whose title to property
is subject to some slight doubt, and who are told
that no one can be advised to enter into any dealing
respecting it, for altho' many and are able to say that a
decision ought to be made in favour of the title,
no one can say what the decision would be. There
can be no security for property without
codification, unless Judge-made law is
understood and followed.

Believe me to remain
Dear Sir
Ever your greatly
obliged
Jeremy Bentham Esq.

Identifier: | JB/004/398/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1831-11-23	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	398	Info in main headings field	bankruptcy &c
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	street & co 1830
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1830
Notes public		ID Number	2319
Box Contents