JB/047/182/001

Click Here To Edit

Decr 1805
Evidence Introd.

Under those circumstances a love of injustice, a sincere and
heartfelt love, a love which in those circumstances may be termed
natural, ought in reason to be expected to be found implanted predominant
in the bosoms of the authors of this part of the law: – a love of
injustice, if not strictly and absolutely for its own sake, but for the sake of the
power and the reputation connected with so intimately derivable from the practice of it.

First as to power. Directing his operations closely and constantly
by to the attainment of the ends of justice, a man feels himself in a state of
thraldom: power fettered crippled by obligation is but a sort of splendid
servitude. It is by breaking rules and not by bending to them
that power is in exercises and displays itself.

Next as to reputation. Guided by the ends of justice, following pursuing
the and plain and direct road that leads to leads on to the attainment
of those ends, a man in this devoted station does no more than any man
might do, and any man would every man almost would do, in do naturally and without
effort or pretension, in any ordinary and inferior station: to
distinguish himself he must strike out of this vulgar road: he
must do something which by an ordinary man would never have
been thought of.

By the combined force of these kindred principles of action may we may
be enabled to account, in a manner altogether natural and
satisfactory, for a number of phenomena in the legal world, phenomena
which on any other principles would be altogether inexplicable: for so many
gross and flagrant injustices which have originated with in which the power of the founder of the
technical system has displayed itself, and which with such unperturbable compliance continue
to be regarded by their successors: extinction of the arrangement which extinguishes right to satisfaction
with the life of the injured object as well as with that of the
author of the injury: encouragement given in both ways to shew murder and
endlessly protracted litigation: the arrangement by which denies to
every man the right to every thing moveable which he possesses, giving to each
usurper the option of returning purchasing the thing for the at whatever price may happen to
be set upon it.

⊞ injustices most of them
peculiar to English law,
because in those times circumstances
concurred in planting in
the brains of English Judges
a degree of depravity which
– the jurisprudence – in the any other nation
would not be to be matched

Identifier: | JB/047/182/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1805-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	182	Info in main headings field	introd.
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	john herbert koe	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15050
Box Contents