xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="ltr">

Transcribe Bentham: A Collaborative Initiative

From Transcribe Bentham: Transcription Desk

Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts

JB/028/026/002

Jump to: navigation, search
Completed

Click Here To Edit

26

Stat: Law.
Inserenda
Equity.
Non-publication of Reports.

Now I who that write this, am, may it please the
reader, am a Counsellor in this same Equity as well as Law:
but, not having been able to remember all I hear,
nor to hear where I am not present, nor to
be present at in to Courts at once, nor in any
of them, before my birth I was here, the truth is I know very little
of the matter. This concerns me not much,
seeing that others are in the a case not widely different
[With us who] ... common ignorance is common consolation] We may be endure it, and be patient, [under the cause of] that an uncertainty by which we profit.

But how fares it with the public who consult
us? Legislators! Judges! Parents and Guardians of
the Law and Guardians) Fr on you be I case the scandal of our [common] ignorance!

The Common Law is an assemblage of petitions
rules, feigned after the usage of those that compose
the Statute Law

The great and to call speak of it by to what it ought to be,
illustrious standard of right and wrong say they is look
up from us them; but by that on paying large fees, we
may have small scantlings of it, [or rather extracts
whose specimens produced to us,] to look squint at peep at, as through
from them, shows through a glass. [darkly

Accordingly We now see it as through a glass darkly: we might
if it so pleased you "and were it but your pleasure.. see it face to face".


Identifier: | JB/028/026/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 28.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

028

Main Headings

comment on the commentaries

Folio number

026

Info in main headings field

statute l. inserenda

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f25 / b26 / f27 / b28

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

9291

Box Contents

UCL Home » Transcribe Bentham » Transcription Desk