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1831 Decr 17
Bankruptcy &cDistinterestedness
Patronage
Introduction to the Calculation

So much as to fees. Now, more as single-seatedness: and here ends
Disinterestedness every thing that has any direct application
to the merits and demerits ofBill: – Of the particular particular measure here in question
and therein to the merits and demerits of the Bill now passed into an Act. But, in the course of this enquiry, has been unavoidably
started another question, of still superior importance
– yes – of much superior importance namely as to
disinterestness disinterestedness, and the claims which the
in a direct or indirect way we have been seeing his Noble and
learned Lordship all along throughout the whole course of his speeches laying, in a direct or indirect way, to the
quality of disinterestedness.

Of much superior importance? Yes: and that on two
disintinguishable accounts put together.

1. With a view to the Bill itself measure itself which at the commencement of those observations
was exhibiting itself
in the shape of a Bill,
but that at the time what
lines are part of them its writing has
received the character
of an Act: because
1. Because on the belief general on the part of
Noble Lords and Honorable Gentlemen on the subject of his disposition towards⊞ ⊞ Law Reform in general
or the ultimate effect of the condition and effect
of the measure, much more than upon any argument that can be
adduced in relation to it: the efficiency of argument⊞2 ⊞2 depends on attention
to it and what is
said, and disposition
to and ability
to profit by it: opinio
the efficiency of the
declared of disposition
of the person in question
the efficiency depends
on no such precaritious
condition.⊞4
⊞4 Nor is this the only reason: for on the same ground,
we see has he himself restied rested his expectation of it with relation
to the of measure.

2. With a view to Law Reform in general: – to Law Reform
in all other particulars. The case is – ⊞3 ⊞3 (Such at the any
rate is my opinion the
would that I
but unhappy persuasion
I can not
help entertaining!)
the case is – I say – that In the Noble and learned Lord we have
– not as professed by himself a friend to Law Reform in that
shape, determined to give to it to the utmost of his power extension to it to the utmost
of his power, but an enemy determined to the utmost of that
same vast power to narrow it: yes to narrow it and not
merely to narrow it, but even to substitute to Law Reform Law
deterioration: in a word to make bad worse: in so much
that all realisation of chance of hopes chance, realisation of whatsoever prospects hopes of the
of that blessing are entertained depend for their realisation
on the cessation of the power and influence in every all shapes
possessed by them in relation to this momentous subject.

Identifier: | JB/004/454/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1831-12-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	454	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	2375
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