JB/010/181/001

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

In England under the existing
system two modes of judicial procedure
are equally in use: one stiled the regular;
the other the summary:⊞ ⊞ regular, that which is in use, for example, in the Westmr. Hall Courts – summary, that which in use is is acted upon, for example, by Justices of the Peace acting singly & in Small Debt Courts. in regard to the
regular, the nation tacitly assumed and
acted upon is – that it is the only one which
is adequate to the accomplishment of
those ends; & that as to the summary
procedure, it is no better than a sort of
makeshift, fit to be employed in those
cases & in those alone in which for some
cause or the other the regular mode cannot
be employed. My persuasion is that the
summary system with such modifications
as I point out is the only one which
is fit in any case to be employed.

The more effectually to establish this proposition,
I begin with bringing to view the cause
by which the opposition of the interest
of the authors+ of the regular system of procedure
to the ends of justice has been
produced; that is to say, the mode of
their remuneration; the faculty that
has been given to them of setting their
own price upon their own services.
Under 14 distinct heads I bring to
view the devices by which they have
contrived to swell that same remuneration
to the enormous pitch at which
naturally & perpetually on the increase, it at this moment has place.
To

Identifier: | JB/010/181/001 "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	181	Info in main headings field	jb to lord wm bentinck
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner		Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	3617
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