JB/051/408/003

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7
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Of Taxes on Law Proceedings

and in short by the indefinite variety of accidents that are
apt to intervene in the progress of a cause] in
the course of a cause are apt liable to intervene
in such manner as to encrease the number
and enhance the chargeableness of the steps
to be taken and the writings to be exhibited.

Another property which to be wished for
in a tax is that in point of time it should be seasonable.
It should come upon a man at a time when
he is at least as well able to bear it & if
possible when he is better able to bear it, as
at other times. But there is no tax which is
so particularly unseasonable as that on Law
Proceedings. It [causes &] galls [him just at the time that
he is] those who are already sore. Because a man has already
suffered one injury in his person, his
property liberty his reputation, or his or his fortune it makes him suffer
in the same manner as he would suffer if he had
received another injury. It watches the occasion
when he is least able to bear, and then lays on the
burthen. All other taxes are taxes upon prosperity:
this alone is a tax upon distress misfortune.

Identifier: | JB/051/408/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	408	Info in main headings field	of taxes on law proceedings
Image	003	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	16573
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