JB/058/135/001

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12 Apr. 1803
Evidence

But if notwithstanding its precipitation the decision is the same
as it would have been without any precipitation, and the decision
that would have been given had there been no precipitation, is would
have been the same right one eve is on the right side – in this supposition
no inconvenience at all of the first order will have
been produced by it.

So much as to the inconveniences of the first order.
As to the inconveniences of the 2d order – vexation and delay
expence, no inconvenience of either kind – supposing none
produced of the first order, can be produced by it be in the power of precipitation
to produce. On the contrary, the effect of the precipitation
will be to make a defalcation from the amount of both
those inconveniences – a defalcation, the magnitude of which
will be in the direct proportion of the enormity of the precipitation,
considered in the light of an abuse.

To exhibit a comparative view of the relative magnitude
of the two contrasted opposite inconveniences thus placed in the same order, is
not to the present purpose. The object business is On the present
occasion the sole business is purely to exhibit, each in its
proper colours, the relation borne by each of those two inconveniences
of the 3d order to the inconveniences of the first
and second orders. Of precipitation, the mischief will be
found to consist chiefly of alarm: Once recognized by the public or even suspected
precipitation can not but be apprehended, and by the whole tribe of suitors,
as a perpetually impending cause of undue decision in all its shapes and injustice.
The parties affected are not so much the individual suitors in
his individual cause in the course of which the precipitation manifests
itself, as the whole species of suitors: that is all the members of the
community taken together, in the character of pe individuals liable to
become suitors.

Identifier: | JB/058/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1803-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	31-32
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18804
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