JB/047/124/001

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Sept 1806
Evidence

"A precise rate fixed" and therefore "not prejudicial to the
"Suitors" says the Committee: – on the contrary a precise rate fixed and therefore
so we have seen already but so much the more prejudicial to the suitors. Why? because
the rates being quantum of the fee receivable on each occasion being
fixed, to encrease it with impunity, Judges have endeavoured and
endeavoured with success to encrease the number of the occasions in which
the fees thus fixed shall be received: and thus it is that to the mere
expence of the fee, is added a prodigious encrease of expence, partic
a double, or treble or twofold quantity to be scattered among other hands with vexation and delay proportionable.

Moderate in its amount. A payment which is the same to a
man of who has £180,000 a year and a man who has not 180 farthings
in the world, if this be moderate, what is was meant by moderate? how
can any payment be immoderate?

Duly proportioned to the particular service – In what instances
does the fee so much as attempt to proportion it to any particular
service – to the service rendered by the doing of that act for which
the fee is paid exacted? not in one instance out of a hundred.

In some instances The Sheriffs Officer has a per centage upon the money which
he levies upon the debtor to pay over to the creditor. But in a
a the Judge has the same fee whether the debt claimed has
£40,000 or 40s.

Identifier: | JB/047/124/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1806-09	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	124	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14992
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