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Judicial Estab
Judges Numbers
The advantage of unity in judication over
32
It has been
of the Kings
Bench with its
four Judges
a number so little distant from it as four might
have remained a problem in some degree problematical
had it not been were it not for the example spectal
spectacle exhibited during a period not very remote
by the King's Bench. A Chief possessed of distinguished by splend
talents of the first brilliancy and many other admirable
endowments: in public great consummate temper dignity decency of language and decorum:
a kind of generous antipathy to chicane and contempt
for pedantry: [add to this] a sort of generous substantial zeal for justice
in contradistinction for to that spurious and distorted kind the
only one which precedent drawn from barbarous ages
can supply. With all this unpopular in almost
every station of life: unpopular with obnox charged by the profession
with unsteadiness and caprice; odious obnoxious to the public
for arbitraty principles: fond of information yet
never dreaming seeking of attempting by any other than
indirect and incompetent means. To compleat the
To do tolerable justice
character better opportunities would be wanting a much abler hand would be wanting and
many other shades but these art competent relative wanted for necessary to the
purpose. His , none at any time despicable
or obnoxious: some at all times respected
and such as sitting singly never failed
of inspiring confidence and veneration. All with a
Identifier: | JB/051/388/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
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30-32 |
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051 |
evidence; procedure code |
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388 |
judicial estab. judges number |
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003 |
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text sheet |
4 |
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recto |
f35 / f36 / f37 / f38 |
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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benjamin constant |
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16553 |
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