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1824. July Aug. 1
Constitutional Code. Ch. XXI Law Practitioners
§.

Of insincerity and complicity with guilt the imputation
does not indeed attach itself with equal force to the Law Practitioner
in all his shapes. In the With greatest force it attaches
itself to the argumentater Advocate, with the next to the Attorney, with
next to the Law advisor, and with little or none to the
Notary. Hence if supposing the circumstances of the country to admitt
of the separation of the profession of the Notary from the others, there would
be little or no reason for including that in the disqualification
which it is so necessary to attach to the first mentioned.
But with the help of a compleat set of formularies the business of the Notary may
most of it if not all be done by Judges and their Deputes.
As to the third the provisions in this Code will suffice to extinguish
it. No man who has an interest in hearing what a
Judge will do, will buy of another man who knows nothing of
the matter and is interested in discovery how to render grief
as to what will be done by the Judge.

For rendering bringing the particular interest of the Judge as near to coincidence
as possible to coincidence with the universal interest,
every expedient that could be found has here been
employed and it is hoped not without success. But to
bring the interest of the Law Practitioner into a direction
other than diametrically opposite to the universal interest
is what the unalterable nature of the case has rendered
absolutely impossible.

It is the interest of the law practitioner, to raise and found to the
utmost disputes and quarrels among relatives and Neighbours: the interest, and of course naturally the
practice. Among the duties of the Judge will be the putting litigants upon their guard
against this sinister interest: and as often as he finds it at work to hold it up to
public view. But the Judge who was himself a law practitioner and whose
circle of intimates is composed of law practitioners, what reasonable expectation can there be
that he will then join with strangers against his familiar friends? that the wolf will thus
join with the sheep against the wolves? Look at English bars and benches. Special
and casual cause of quarrel excepted, what confederates were ever more indefatigable
than Judges and Barristers Lawyers of both shapes the two shapes are in the laudation singing the praises of each other?

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Date_1	1824-08-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-21, 23
Box	041	Main Headings	Constitutional Code
Folio number	435	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code
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Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	"Recto" is not in the list (recto, verso) of allowed values for the "Rectoverso" property.	Page Numbering	E7
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1823
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public		ID Number	001
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