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General View
4 Ends of Judicature
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Problem to be resolved
maximization of redress
minimization of
hardship
Here then the endeavours of the philanthropist in the time
may be expressed by the one problem — how to pre unite the
maximization of secur redress for the injured in the character of pursuer with the minimization
of hardship on those the innocent in the character of
defendants?
These being the ends the means may be stated as follows
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Means
I Security exacted from
pursuer for eventual
justiciability
1. In so far as necessary antecedent condition under the name of
security for eventual justifi justiciability on the plaintiffs side this condition imposed to
to the borrowing of obtainment of the judicial moves for the alleged
purpose of seeking redress for injury
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II Compensation and
even punishment ton
pursuers for /blameable vexation
to defendants
2. In case of unjust demand, for the prevention of mindless
and unprofitable vexation and expence such as might otherwise be imposed
on per individuals in bought into the of defendants by individuals
placing themselves in the situation of plaintiff, provision made of eventual burthen not only compensation
but punishment to be inflicted on these alone in whose
inclusion the existence of blame in the one or oth of two shapes
has been established.
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Shapes of blameableness
Those two shapes are 1. evil consciousness 2. temerity
or readiness
1 by evil consciousness
By evil consciousness understand on the part of him by
whom a command is carried on, a censurable of the
injustice of it of the non execution of all adequate ground for it
2 by temerity or rashness
By temerity or rashness understand the absence of that
due by which if upon the subject the
he by whom an unjust hurt is command or ground would
have been rendered conscious of the injustice of it
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III Assistance to helpless
litigants
Say taxes enforced to such Ruler as has been found to blame.
Tax for vexatious pursuit:
tax for vexatious defence
3. In law cases, assistance ordered at the expence of
the public or of spontaneously contributing individuals assistance
afforded to persons to whom whether as the pursuer or in the defendant
side natural expence of the of Money coupled with the inability to defray the expence
could have
could otherwise keep in
or keep destitute
of the means.
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