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27 Judicial Estab. Judges - Number

23 Besides the expence of , which receives by this means an enormous increase. In speaking of expence, I have hitherto
brought to view that source devision <add>branch</add> only of this great
evil which results from accompanies multiplication
of mindsets and delay, and of which the
burthen rests upon the suitors. A much more
palpable branch is that which is required consumed
in for salaries. Under the head The mischief of multiplicity is
an affair not of argument but of arithmetic.
In Profusion Under this head of expenditure the
degree profusion that is into to under which the establishment may
be betray'd by an erroneous principle is altogether
peculiar to the subject. On other heads In general the difference
between a frugal plan and a profuse one
has only between fractions: five two, or twenty
per cent. Here the expence of a profuse plan
is a multiple of that of a frugal one: a
hundred per cent is the least error that can
happen: two thousand per Cent is not an
unexampled one(a). A small matter in point of
exactness of Justice might surely be sacrificed, even
it necessary to save so enormous a difference in point of


(a) The plan given in by the French Committee of Constitution
proposes twenty Judges in each of every one if about
from 25 to 30 Provincial Courts.




Identifier: | JB/051/386/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

23-25

Box

051

Main Headings

evidence; procedure code

Folio number

386

Info in main headings field

judicial estab. judges number

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f27 / f28 / f29 / f30

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

benjamin constant

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16551

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