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1827. Novr. 23.
Law Amendment.

Propositions

Ch. 11. Judiciaries
Securities
Existing System

Prop Securities for appropriate aptitude. Under the proposed System, these
☞ Then when these are either individually or by reference to Appendice
Go on and say. Under the exis proposed system, these. Under the
existing system, what? Answer upon absolute none: unless exception be made for
a levy of his
moral breach
.

Under the existing system, the term of service is
in the language of the instrument of appointment "during
"good behaviour
". To this Prodigious is the impertinence attached to this-
those words. prodigious the strength of the security regarded as
being afforded by them. Prodigious however nothing in reality but the
delusion thus as yet but too generally produced by it. S

By continuance in effect during good behaviour is

Of The mode of tenure for which reality has place
what is it? Voluntary resignation excepted Tenure during life. until dislocation is produced
by judicial prosecution term at the conclusion of a
This perpetuating — whence comes this? Some from this circumstance;
The namely, that only by no otherwise than by a mode of judicial procedure which
the sentence of never can take never be realised can inaction from the office is proportionable ever be effected.

Now this mode what is it? Answer. Impertinence: or what
is equivalent an address to the King in which both Houses must concur
praying that the operation be performed. Now this same
invaluable most effectual remedy — for as such it is has uniformly been spoken
of — what is the in the case of an misconduct in any
shape in which adequate inducement to give into it can have
place is the probability of its being applied? Answer — exactly
none whatsoever. Never is Known it is now by experience, that
the judi with the ordinary exercise of the legislative function,
the exercise application of the judicial function authority of the legislature
to this judicial purpose is incompatible: nor, antecedently
to this experience due after was has application ever been
made of it: for as to the impeachment of the Earl of Macclesfield
it applied not to this case — his situation being that of
Lord Chancellor, whose term of service is not the during goo
but to
that which is here in question but but that other to wit during the Kings pleasure perm
from which it is always on every occasion so triumphantly neither ma contradistinguished.




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Date_1

1827-11-23

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

042

Main Headings

law amendment

Folio number

608

Info in main headings field

law amendment

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

j whatman turkey mill 1827

Marginals

Paper Producer

admiral pavel chichagov

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1827

Notes public

ID Number

13531

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