JB/058/183/001

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23 April 1805
Evidence

The list of the ends of justice we have seen serving for the
list of the legitimate ends of judicature – of judicial procedure:
that same list will serve with little variation also for the list of the sinister
and actual ends of procedure: the difference, though short
in the form expression is material in effect substance: in the sinister ends
the ends actually pursued we may see the exact opposites
of the ends that ought to have been pursued: we shall see
a great part, perhaps the greatest part of the activity of the
man workmen of law, employed in the bringing on or augmenting
those evils which ought as much as possible to have been
averted: the evils corresponding and opposite to the ends of justice.

In the construction and maintenance of this edifice work or fabrick the proper Architect
and Surveyor being the legislator, a natural question
that will naturally occur present itself, is supposing it to be true the fact true, how
is it to be accounted for, that in regard to a work of such prodigious superior
prime importance he should have remained in a great degree inactive and inattentive
to his duty. The question is here mentioned and lest it
should be thought to be overlooked: but the answer can not be given would be
altogether premature if attempted to be given at this early stage.

In point of fact, and for a considerable as will hereafter appear of necessity, the
work was for left to interested abandoned with little or no
direction or instruction, to his subordinate the first of his subordinate – the Judge: the degree of information
experience, and consequently of information and intelligence necessary
for such direction and instruction being as yet confirmed.

Thence it came that, at the time of laying the foundations of
this system, the it had in every country for its final cause the
particular and sinister interest of the headman among the actual workmen
the Judge – which in virtue of the community of interests which has
already been announced is as much as to say, of the man of law.

Identifier: | JB/058/183/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	183	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d4 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18852
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