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A third reason apt not to be alledged in
favour of the forced interposition of law - assistance
is the advantage of the saving made in the time
of the Judge.

The strength of this argument lies in forgetting
supposing that an Attorney's time is worth
nothing, and forgetting that he insists upon being expects to be
paid for it, which if he did not it never
the idea of putting a padlock on the mouths of
parties and their unmercenary frauds would
no more have been heard of in France or England than
never so much as occurred
it ever was in Greece or Rome.

But the fact is the time of an Attorney
like that of every other man has its value, and
an Attorney in full business never fails to get
as good pay for it as would be sufficient for
a Judge. When the Judge has heard on both sides all that
is to be heard the cause from the two
the cause is finished. But when the
Attorneys on both sides have heard all that is
to be collected by them each on his own side
the cause is not yet begun. The time of the
Attorney instead of being so much saved in
than the account of is therefore so much
thrown away. And all this without reckoning the
time of Advocates, and the time which Attornies must

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Identifier: | JB/051/099/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	7-9
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	099	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 f7 f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16264
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