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Besides these ill effects the above immediate which arise immediately
out of the particular nature of this institution
others there are which though they spring out scarce less
immediately attached to it of it in a more smooth or indirect maner,
must not be wholly passed over, if we would
wish to make a fair and just estimate of its
claim to the praises that have been so lavishly bestowed
utility upon the whole upon it.

1. Complication is an article that neither on in this
or any other branch of legislation ought ever
to pass unheeded. The beautiful simplicity
which otherwise might characterize shine conspicuous in the system
of procedure is sadly and unavoidably deformed
by this cumbersome appendage. What a mass
of irregular and indigested of regulation on this head does the English code
offer on this head! Yet even this is but a small
evil in comparison of the heap of rubbish
which in the language of English lawyers goes
by the name of learning. The doctrine law of evidence
has in great part grown out of this
excrescence: for it is in the incapacity of these
irregular unjudged Judges that have afforded the pretence which
to their rash governors the grand standing plus pretense for that system

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Identifier: | JB/035/019/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 35.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

035

Main Headings

constitutional code; evidence; procedure code

Folio number

019

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f1 / f2 / f3 / f4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

arthur young

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

10612

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