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1823 Decr.
Constitutional Code or Procedure

In speaking of the adjournement, a description
is given of the contents of the adjournement:
in speaking of the citation, a description
is given of the contents of the citation: Are
they the same? Why two descriptions at length?
Are they different? What reasonable ground can
there be for the difference? In both cases, the man
is to do what he is bid, and it is the same in
both cases: to these and other such redundancies
is the Code indebted for perhaps one half of its
bulk.

In the Court called the inferior Court, it appears
not that the parties whose lot is at stake upon
the suit, are expected to make their appearance:
their personal appearance, for in law without some such
adjunct you can never tell what appearance is understood
to mean. From the Court which is to bring them to reconciliation,
they cannot consistently with the words of
the law be excluded. When they are there for what purpose
is it they are brought thither? the short answer
is – to tell lies: for keeping their language within the
bounds of decorum provision is made; for keeping it
within the bounds of truth, none. License for lies without
stint being given to them for telling lies, it is upon
the lies thus told that the reconciliation is to have its
ground. Is it possible that the penner of this Code.
Should not have had among his designs, the giving birth
to these lies, answer in the affirmative who can. When

Identifier: | JB/055/057/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 55.
Date_1	1823-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	54 or 24 - 57 or 27, 58 or 38
Box	055	Main Headings	Constitutional Code; Procedure Code
Folio number	057	Info in main headings field	Constitutional Code and Procedure
Image	001	Titles
Category	Copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C4 / D18
Penner		Watermarks	J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1823
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Jonathan Blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1823
Notes public		ID Number	17778
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