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30 Aug. 1803

thus laws may be absurd in order that they may be unintelligible.

On the different grounds which are the theatre with which their respective functions are
conversant which are the theatre of their respective operations,
they have a valuable property in the ignorance and delusion
of the great body of the people.

On a double account, and in every event that can take
place, it is the interest of lawyers that non-lawyers
should be kept in ignorance. If a man is sensible aware
of his ignorance, he goes to his lawyer, and the lawyer is
paid for his advice. If he is not sensible aware of his ignorance,
he falls into some transgression
through his ignorance of some obligation that has been imposed
upon him by the law, or incurrs some loss, through
his ignorance of some right that has been conferred on him by
the law, in both cases either case he finds himself
plunged entangled in litigation, he applies goes again to his lawyer, and
the lawyer is paid for his assistance.

It is therefore the interest of the men of law lawyers, that
the law should for ever in every respect and for ever, be in as
bad a state as possible: save only as to the its being in such
a way and to such a degree tyrann debased destroyed by tyranny
or corruption, in such sort as to shut the door that the door should be shut against
litigation by leaving the committing the fate of the suitor
to the will of a the despot, or the extrajudicial will of a the Judge.
But though in a remote way it is the his interest of that the
law should under those reservations, be bad in every respect yet⊞ ⊞ for the demand thereby created for his advice or assistance for the reasons above given, it
is more immediately in a more immediate his interest that it be as unknown as
possible. If it be his In his interest that it be bad in substance,
it is so by a somewhat larger though not less close and indefeatable
concatenation round in the choice of causes and effects – that it
be , in order that it be to be unknown to
the people it is of use to him that it should be unintelligible; to
be unintelligible that it be absurd: to be absurd that it should
be bad, too bad, to bad as to bid defiance to anticipation and conjecture.

Identifier: | JB/047/130/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1803-08-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	130	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	14998
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