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1828 March 31 2

H. Br. "Upshot" for Law Reform

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4 Procedure
9. All the absurd and grievous mock litigation
now is use when by giving through the mere
forms of suits and steps in of suits, real errors are
multiplied, and real expense and delay incurred.
would be swept away.

4 Procedure
10. Arrest in mesne process, and taking
the person in execution would be abolished, but a
punishment after trial would be awarded to fraudulent
or extravagant debtors become insolvent.

4. Procedure
11. All pleading would be reduced to a
simple and intelligible form, and the real cases of
parties would be plainly, cheaply and early declared
to the Court and to each other.

III Evidence
12. Under certain restraints, parties would
be examined in all cases. All objections to receiving
evidence, on account of interest, would be
removed.

III. Evidence
(N.B. I have great doubts whether even
Judicial infamy should be any objections.)
All other matters tending to throw light on cases, (as
truth in prosecutions for Libels) would be admitted.

Interpretation
13. The effect of words used in wills,
deeds, and other instruments, would be matters of
evidence in each case, and the rule always taken
from the true intent and meaning in that case.

Conveyancing
14. Conveyancing and disposition by will
would be reduced to an easy certainty by the adoption
of certain formulas of known and fixed
meaning.

15.The

Identifier: | JB/011/003/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 11.
Date_1	1828-03-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	011	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	003	Info in main headings field	h. br. "upshot" for law reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / f2
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	3700
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