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1828. Jany. 24 +

Law Amendment or Duelling Extinguishable.

C 18

Propositions
Ch. IV Oath none

Existing System
Sham pleas interdicted
Worse pleas substituted

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Sham pleas exter abolished
worse pleas substituted

To the On the occasion of the lately undertaken
reform amongst other incongruities those yet under consideration the sort of pleas distinguished
from the rest by the name of sham pleas. As
before this one was put: and what was the consequence:
so far from lessened delay vexation and expense
were encreased. How should it have been otherwise. These
were exactly the cases in which delay vexation and expense
were at a minimum. Sham plea The lying pleas called
Sham pleas were the shortest of all plea lying pleas:
and all pleas with without exception all pleas were and are
lying ones: driven out of this least mischievous reason limited and expense
mala fide: stronghold of of factitious delay mala fide suitors
were driven perforce into others in which the stock of
that pretious commodity is inexhaustible.

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This must be as long as
pleading is continued

Thus must it ever be so long as under the
mendacity laws what is called pleading is continued

3
The effect the consequence
if forseen of moral
if unforseen of intellectual
inaptitude

Was this effect seen then whereabouts where was moral
aptitude? was it unseen? — then where was intellectual aptitude? +

Here then was a change and what change? From bad
to worse: and from heads which could then prehend what better
can generally be expected?

He who can not see, that which lying is authorized
and rewarded lying will continue to be practised, what is it
that he can see.

+ See the first material in Morn. Chron. for Jan 1828.

Identifier: | JB/057/316/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1828-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	057	Main Headings	law amendment
Folio number	316	Info in main headings field	law amendment
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d18
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1827
Marginals		Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1827
Notes public		ID Number	18646
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