JB/051/233/001

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In England in the jurisdiction of Justices of
the peace where sum summary justice is allowed
it is given with less reluctance to two Justices
than to one. [where anxiety for the efficacy of
the laws predominates the business is trust they
trust the business with one: where anxiety for
the security of the individual predominates, they
trust two to it.] This The preference is very altogether reasonable:
and nothing less than inconsistent with the preference
I give to one. A single Justice has no Judge of this kind
problem about him judges in the dark: he sits
to find in his closet: he may sit, if he pleases, in his coal-hob.
if he pleases. He judges in a thousand instances
without appeal: and there is good
reason for that too: for the costs of appeal
would frighten prosecutors: and the law might as
well not be made. Put two Justices of the Peace
together, each is a check upon the other: and a
bad check is better than none. There is besides
more in this than appears upon the face of
the law. Business that can requires two Justices
gentlemen are in the habit of doing at periodical
meetings of neighbouring magistrates: such particular and conventional meetings
are stiled Petty Sessions; in contradistinction to the regular

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	233	Info in main headings field
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Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	2
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[britannia with shield emblem]]]
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