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Judicial Estate
Justice
Consult experience nothing can well be
stronger than the testimony it affords in favour
of this reasoning. It is in Great Britain alone
of all nations that we shall find united all the
conditions requisite for a fair and compleat trial.
It is in that rich mine of peculiarities that we shall
find the extremes of simplicity and multiplicity
in
in judicature with various degrees of publicity
for their accompaniment. Cast a glance over the principal tribunals, we shall find their reputation
for justice running with wonderful exactness in the direct a ratio compounded of
the direct proportion of the degree of publicity
that affords their operations and the converse proportion
of the number of which they are
composed.
On the principle of unsuspected immaculate honour we
may hold the Court of Chancery in its two degrees of jurisdiction, to each composed consisting / constituted of but by a single Judge.
In the sink of corruption and discredit we may see the most numerous of the two Houses of Parliament: the most numerous body of Judges any where perhaps
to be seen till the new formed and virtuous National Assembly
of France found it necessary to exhibit itself occasionally
in
Not a breath of
suspicion shewing
against it since the
days of for more than
a century and a half
for the prosecution of Ld Macclesfield had
nothing to do with his
character as a Judge.
Identifier: | JB/051/387/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
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051 |
evidence; procedure code |
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387 |
judicial estab. judges number |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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