JB/010/184/001

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1829. Nov.

Among the causes which contribute to
the want of security to property on the part of
the lowest orders of the occupiers of land I have
frequently heard Mr. Mill speaking with natural &
deep regret of the want of a Judicatory by which
evidence could be elicited for the formation of a substantial
& permanent ground of title to the general possession
or right of occupancy in the several portions of the soil, together
with the partial rights, obligations, & exemptions in reference
to the several contiguous portions & the conditions
in respect of payment of rent forfeiture in case of
non-payment and so forth: of this evidence when sufficiently
elicited all along as fat as elicited by viva voce
examination to be minuted down in the manner
in use in the case of evidence elicited by Committees of
the two Houses of Parliament: of these minutes the
aggregate body to be carefully preserved under the name of the
records: this being the name given in the technical language
of English law to those masses of soiled parchment the contents of which
if they were what they ought to be would be of the description
just mentioned but which in fact contain little more
than a few comparatively immaterial truths drowned
in an ocean of falsehoods poured in upon them by for the
sake of the lawyers to whom they are sources of fees.

For this body of evidence a magnificent & most
useful groundwork & standard of reference co-extensive
with the greatest part of British India is, if I am
not misinformed, at already in existence – I mean
the survey that has said to have been made & the result committed
to paper, by the authority and at the expense of the
local government.

Supposing The whole soil that let us suppose is
divided into districts of the lowest dimensions averaging
the average size of an English Parish: call them for the moment
Quasi-parishes. In each such quasi-Parish let us
suppose made & carefully kept a transcript of such part of
the survey abovementioned as relates to this same
quasi-parish.

Identifier: | JB/010/184/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 10.
Date_1	1829-11	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	010	Main Headings	codification proposal (codification offer)
Folio number	184	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner		Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	3620
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