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18 June 1804
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Hence came a double and continually encreasing demand for
fraud: fraud upon the bystanders, to reconcile them blind their eyes to the extortion
practised upon suitors: fraud upon the Monarch, to blind his
lofty loftily situated and unscrutinizing eyes to the peculation practiced upon himself.

Fraud is but falshood, falshood in speech or action, uttered in the prospect
of some undue advantage. Hence falshood, falshood in
all its shapes becomes a necessary and ever active instrument an all pervading
principle of in English judicature: the love of it a passion
which every English lawyer imbibes with the milk of his alma
mater. Without a fiction in his mouth (for that is the name
which has bestowed covered thrown over mendacity when applied to the corruption
of justice, as if vice thus venomous were as innocent as
the play of poetry without a fiction in his mouth, a thorough true
old bred English lawyer was never at his case: and howsoever
the hereditary fondness passion may be dissembled, it would be difficult,
even in those latter days to find find the man by whom it has
been disavowed. Even in those latter days, a Judge not more still
more elevated above his brethren by his liberality than by his eloquence feared
not (for what should have been made him fear?) to speak of fiction this instrument of corruption
as a most necessary convenient not to say necessary instrument
of justice judicature: an implement which the of which it was consistent in this, that like the Lisboan rule
could be moulded into any shape.+ + Earl Mansfield – Ld Chief Justice of the Kings Bench

By what particular ways and means the favourite instrument became
an instrument of extortion and injustice in the hands of its inventors
will appear be seen in other parts of this work as occasion serves. Suffice it
for the present to remark observe announce that as it had was in the workshop of
vice that it was fabricated forged, it will be found as we proceed, to have had
mischief of all kinds in all shapes for its work.

Second in the list of false but too presumed ends of judicature And thus much for the present, for, profit to the Judge.

Identifier: | JB/058/161/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1804-06-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	procedure
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d9 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals		Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public		ID Number	18830
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