★ Keep up to date with the latest news - subscribe to the Transcribe Bentham newsletter; Find a new page to transcribe in our list of Untranscribed Manuscripts
Tit. IV. B.
Jurisdiction Convenience In the parcelling out of jurisdiction and determining
the grounds of judicial competence I have
been governed invariably by the simple rule of
convenience. I have accordingly made all other real
considerations rules give way to this bind to that rule of convenience. In
the current systems in this head phantastic notions
of congruity rather not than visios of convenience
have dictated the pen guided the hand of the legislator. If convenience
happened to chime in with those notions
as happily it not infrequently did, it
was well: if not it was no matter. On this
head a rule be it what it may that will
not bind to convenience circumstances can not but be productive
of frequent inconvenience. In no instance
can a latitu the requisite degree latitude of
discretion committed to a Judge be less obnoxious exposed
to abuse. If the a Pursuer had it absolutely
in his power to call before the Judge of his
own territory any Defendant he thought proper
he might institute frivolous or even groundless
suits for the mere purpose of vexation or oppression
If the had it absolutely in his suit could not be brought cause could not be carried in
else where but within the territory of the Defendant's abode
---page break---
Identifier: | JB/051/254/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
|
|||
---|---|---|---|
051 |
evidence; procedure code |
||
254 |
|||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
4 |
||
recto |
f1 / f2 / f3 / f4 |
||
jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
||
arthur young |
|||
16419 |
|||