JB/051/228/001

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Accommodation Where forcing compromise may be useful There is one case in which under a rational
system of procedure good may be done
in the way of accommodation of causes, and there
is but one. This is where the parties being both in good faith, each sincerely persuaded of having right on his side the quantity of a man's right is itself uncertain the cause is so
circumstanced that the natural and inevitable expence of
liquidating the enquiry is likely to be more in value than
the difference between the subject in dispute. By
the natural I mean the inevitable: I mean
that part of the present actual necessary expence at present
necessary which would remain after that
factitious part has been deducted which taxes and a bad
vitious mode of procedure have created, and that
part which good economy might be capable
of saving out is capable of being saved out of
the natural expence by economical expedients.
It is not necessary to enquire here Wwhat expence
is and what is not inevitable need not be demanded enquired
here. In that case a friend to the plaintiff
may say to him, you can it is impossible
to say on whom the expence may fall. You
demand ten pound think yourself entitled
to ten pound: the defendant thinks you entitled
to nothing: the costs which can not be less than
twenty pound are as likely to fall upon you as

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Identifier: | JB/051/228/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	228	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / d2 / d3 / d4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16393
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