JB/031/249/001

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1828 July 21

(1) Fraud the constant
occupation of all Judges

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Judges employed in getting
money on false pretences:
this punishable by Act of
parliament, but if indicted
Ju Act wd be declared not
to extend to Judges.

Thus it is that throughout the whole of life a large
part of every English Judges time is employed in the obtaining
of money for himself, whether by received by his own hands or
by the hand of those for the person he makes his instruments — in
obtaining it by false pretences. By a special Act of Parliament
obtaining a money on false pretences is made
punishable by punishment in any one or more of a variety of ways shapes from
imprisonment, pillory or transportation. But were any man
weak enough to ground in their Statute an indictment in
which a Judge was made Defendant so sure as the indictment
wa Statute was referred to, so sure would it be determined
that to Judges the provision in the Statute never could
have been designed to extend. Be the falshood ever so flagrant,
and nefarious, the profit of it to the Judge by whom it is uttered
was so enormous, in this as in so many other instances the phrase in law suffices for
converting in what would otherwise be criminality into justice.

Identifier: | JB/031/249/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 31.
Date_1	1828-07-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	69
Box	031	Main Headings	code civil
Folio number	249	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
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	9935
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