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Tit. 1. 22. B

Law Monopoly The clause which recognizes recognizing every
man's right to plead his own cause

Forcing upon a man a law assistant whom he is compelled to pay is oppressive and extortionate. The right of pleading ones own cause in
one's own person and without the obligation of
making use of forced assistance is of all rights
one of those which has the best pretensions to be
considered as a natural and indefensible one.
To refuse a man the right of speaking on his
own behalf is to condemn him him unheard: to force to condemn
unheard a man who is on the spot demanding to be heard
If there be one sort of proceeding more essentially
unjust than another, it is this To force make render a man
fate dependent upon the endeavours of an assistant
whom if left at liberty he would not choose who is not of his choice, is still to condemn
him unheard: it is adding mockery to
injustice. To compel him withal to pay an
assistant thus forced too upon him is adding
extortion to mockery and injustice. It has Such
a law carries with it has all the oppression and iniquity of
a tax on law-proceedings, without any of the
use. It is a tax upon law-proceedings with
this addition that the produce instead of being carried

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	1-6
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur young
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