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1828 July 25

By fear they then stood engaged to give effect take charge of their sinister interest,
and of their own of course by self-regard in its more agreable shapes. For themselves
they were left to make provision as they could: and
power sufficient being in their hands, there was little danger
of their being deficient in this part branch of their duty.

At the Of the duty and business of the a Judge, at
this time of day no better use indeed other description
can well be given, than that which is given of it by saying
that it consists in giving execution and effect to the law.
For at present laws there are to which execution and
effect may be given are capable of being given: some really existing that is to say portions
of Statute law: others fictitious, feigned after the model
of those same portions of Statute law – that is to say portions
of Common Law. But in those early days in which
the Judicial Establishment took its commencement,
no scarce any such laws, real or fictitious, so to speak were
as yet made: with very inconsiderable exception they were still to make. What the
laws were that were made, by whom they were mad, when
it was they were made, where it was they were made, how it
was they were made – all this is in the clouds. Imperceptibly They crept
as it were in existence: and the way and manner in which they did
so is this. When one man felt himself a sufferer by the
act of another he applied to made application to a Judge
or set of Judges and asked prayed for relief, satisfaction in one
shape or other: money to gratify his desire of appetite for money, or
punishment of the adversary to gratif gratifications for
one or other of his appetites – the that appetite for money, or that
for vengeance – that of Professional lawyers who while the
story was telling were waiting till the suits they were engaged
in should come took notes either in their memory or
in black and white of the nature of the several cases in which
the relief prayed was either afforded or denied: for what occurred
to him each of them was should it happen to me to be concerned in a suit
similar to this, and the decision come to in this should suit my
purpose, I may mention it to the Judges, and to save trouble
they may take this same course in my case. Where the importance
of the case presented
an adequate motive, this
or that Judge would remind
them take the same
course.

Identifier: | JB/030/061/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 30.
Date_1	1828-07-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-7
Box	030	Main Headings	pannomion
Folio number	061	Info in main headings field	jud.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / d2 / e2 / e1**
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	9568
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