JB/031/113/001

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1828 Sept. 6
Blackstone

4. The pecuniary burthen imposed by the uncertainty of the rule of action, and the consequent
insecurity of every thing dear to man – that insecurity
so anxiously kept a foot, by the denial of a really existing
and accessible rule of action, such as is afforded by Statute
law even in its worst confused and difficult comprehensible
shape: the rule by which Judges the decisions of
Judges and the opinions of Law advisers are or pretend to
be determined being that which is called in contradistinction to Statute Law, Common Law
a coarse unauthorized form assemblage of words, by each person
for his own purpose, on each occasion for his own purpose
distilled, or pretended to be distilled from the decisions of
Judges, and the talk with which those decisions were respectively
accompanied.

4. Results Effects of the want of appropriate operation on the part of the
Legislative.

5. 1. Want of Judicatories in adequate number, so distributed
throughout the face of the territory, that parties individuals at large and witnesses
may out of 24 hours have enough for attendance
at the judgment seat the whole of the number of the hours in the day occupied by the
judicial business, each without sleeping apart from his or her own house.
To the course of prudence being at the same reduced to that state of
simplicity out of which but for the purpose of by power and for profit of Judges
and Co. it would never have been taken, and lawinstead
of inaccessible in the highest degree accessible be rendered in that
same highest degree accessible.

6. 2. Expence of witnesses and other Evidence holders being
thus reduced to the expence of a days journey in the article of
time, is the result of Legislator negligence under this
head, the expence of written documents, and the incidental expence of
procuring evidence written and when wanted other real, from
in contradistinction to personal from distant dependencies and foreign
countries.

Identifier: | JB/031/113/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-09-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	031	Main Headings	civil code
Folio number	113	Info in main headings field	blackstone
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	richard doane	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9799
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