JB/058/120/001

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23 April 1805
Evidence

§. Ch. Conflict between amongst the abovementioned ends

That between the amongst the several objects above announced in the character
of ends – of ends of justice, that is between the pursuits
respectively directed to those objects, there naturally and necessarily exists a certain degree
of natural contrariety, as manifest at first sight. Taking at their minimum the
evils correspondent to the three collateral ends, viz. delay, vexation and expence
the pursuit of these collateral ends would thus be rendered is altogether incompatible
with the pursuit of the main or direct end – fulfilment of the
predictions delivered by the substantive branch of the law. All
procedure, how summary and expeditious soever supposed some
delay, i.e. some time spent employed and consumed: all procedure supposes
some vexation, all procedure supposes some expence, or
at least some consumption of time and labour, which an expenditure that is the
equivalent of some expence. If, without regard to the
main or direct end, and the mischief that would ensue from
the neglect of it, the collateral end in those its several branches
were to be exclusively pursued, there would be one, and but
sure course for the attainment of it, viz: what and that is to relinquish
the pursuit of the main end altogether. Give up all recourse
to justice, to you rid yourself at once of all the inconveniences
that result from the recourse to justice. The whole fabric of Society it is true
is dissolved, and the human race extinct, or thrown back into
the savage. The species is either destroyed or ruined: but
at that price, the evils incident to litigation are done away.

Identifier: | JB/058/120/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	120	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	conflict /between / amongst/ the abovementioned ends
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	[[notes_public::"alter[?] from the marginal contents"]]	ID Number	18789
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