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1829. Nov. 19.
J.B. to Lord Wm. Bentinck.

As to the rendering the rule of action
knowable by those whose enjoyment of rights & security
against wrongs depends upon their knowledge of it,
upon the adequacy of their knowledge in relation to it,
to the existing official establishment not only as merely has the
promotion of it been at all times an object of neglect, but the
object of endeavour if any has been the prevention
of it. I speak of this country, & if in British India
there be any difference I see little reason to presume
that it is to the advantage of British India that less civilized country that
any such difference will be found to have place.

As to rendering justice accessible, the result of
an inquiry which has been carrying on by me for the
length of time just mentioned is – that the course of judicial
procedure, have in the administration application of it & the judicial establishment employed in the administration application of it, have, from first to last had
for their actual ends in view – have had for their
objects, not the ends of justice, but the particular &
sinister interests of the lawyers, official & professional,
employed in making application
of the rule of action, such as it is.

So true is this, that the plan for both to
these objects, to the of which my labours
have been for so many years directed namely the plan for the accomplishment of both those objects, is regarded
by me as being, owing to the circumstances
which I bring to view, the very first that
has ever been exclusively, or even principally,
directed to the accomplishment of
the ends of justice.
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Identifier: | JB/010/180/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1829-11-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	180	Info in main headings field	jb to lord wm bentinck
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner		Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	3616
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