JB/057/107/001

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6 Aug. 1805

Procedure

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Ch. 1
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By the Sovereign, in whom be he or more or less fit, the choice power of choosing
can not but reside, by the sovereign the metropolis will naturally
be drawn as the seat of the Court of Appeal, as the place in
which that species of judicature shall be exercised by those who
in his opinion, real or at least declared, are fitted for the trust.
But, whether or no at the time of his being chosen for this
office, the man thus chosen were or were not the fittest that could have been chosen upon the whole,
the very theatre in which he is destined to act, has a tendency to
render him fitter than he would have been, had it been situated
any where else, for why? because it is under the eye of the bill public
that this theatre is placed.

There is moreover another reason why to/by a Judge of a Court of
Appeal such a degree of confidence may fitly be, and thence naturally
will be reposed by the public as well as the sovereign
such a degree of confidence to which the individual Courts can
not any of them, much less all of them present an equal
title. The larger the mass of affluence the matter of wealth which the a Judge
is in possession of, whether derived from private property or from
allowance salary, viz made at the public charge, the scarcer he will will his probity be against
all attacks that might be made upon it to which it might otherwise be exposed from & by pecuniary
corruption: and this not only because the larger greater his affluence, the
less will be the ratio borne to it by any given mass of the matter of
wealth offered presented to in the character of a bribe, but also because the
more of that pretious matter he possesses, the more of it he is capable has to lose
of being deprived of in the want of his being found guilty of malversation
in his office. But an office of this sort being in its
nature laborious, and capable of occupying of itself the whole of a mans
disposable time, it is not natural that it should be accepted of by
those who of in their private capacity are already possessed of a degree
of affluence adequate or nearly adequate to the purpose. On the other hand
for

Identifier: | JB/057/107/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1805-08-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	057	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	107	Info in main headings field	procedure
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18437
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