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1824. Decr. 6 1825. March 19
Procedure Code

Ch. IX Intermediate
(2) (2 § Counter security
Demand for counter security —

Anglicé

29
of
uncontroulled
power of pursuit

Under the English system, under which on call from
any person is sufficient to procure the arrest of any person
the arrest with no one use say what disastrous train of
consequences, injuries of this sort complexion may be and may have been perpetrated any
day in any number: for infinite are the variations
which the case admitts of. If they do not happen every
day, it is owing, either to the virtue of the people, as to
that ignorance of the law they are kept under by the
law or to the that ignorance of itself so carefully anxiously nourished
by the law, not afforded by to every thing but to its humanity or its provision
Blackstone in hand no m by the law of this country exclusive says
the panegyrist no man can be deprived of his liberty though
it be but for a moment without a charge on oath for his
security! a charge! a charge for which, be it ever so utterly and
knowingly false, be by whom it is made his one on the
instance out of many a hundred not to say thousand any
thing he faces, nothing at all if either he is the his victim
too poor to be and or too loosely connected with
the to be worth prosecuting, or the victim too poor
to prosecute, or not vindictive enough and at the same time
rich enough to tax himself to an indefinite unlimited amount for
the chance of sending off his injuries to a settlement for
which perhaps he would it is his wish be glad to visit to repair to an oath
a swearing which [+1] [+]1 all merchants,
compelled to it by
all Parliaments,
and which all
good men and true "all good men and true" instigated by
the example of all,who have received self attested self styled receivers of the Holy Ghost and
the frequently repeated instigation or approbation of all Judges
are in the face of these same Judges continually treading under
an foot with conscience in their mouth. [+2] [+2]which on each
occasion feels the neck
of the Almighty into
a string giving the
placing the end of it in
the hand of every petty
Justice of the peace
tyrant who, on pretence of preserving the peace with full assurance of impunity dines with the helpless, that is to say with of the cases
namely what he pleases He "Swears not at
all."

Identifier: | JB/052/261/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 52.
Date_1	1824-12-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	29
Box	052	Main Headings	procedure code
Folio number	261	Info in main headings field	procedure code
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	16934
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