JB/058/191/001

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16 May 1805
Evidence

Here Thus then we see the sinister interest of the man of law
branching itself out into four distinguishable ramifications ramifying itself into branches: interest corresponding to
love and pursuit of profit, love of reputation, love of power, love of case.
Each of these will be found to be without its a visible share in the determination
of the arrangements of procedure.

To each of these branches of private interest, as to each
of the branches we have seen of public interest, corresponds a
distinguishable end, which with reference to respect being consideration had of the public interest,
and its opposition to that interest, may not improperly
be termed a sinister end.

Entering the aggregate of these sinister ends of procedure
on the one hand, comparing these with the legitimate ends of
procedure the same system on the other, let us observe the results which
no pursuit of the end or object set up by his sinister interest
it was naturally the his wish to see produced, and as naturally not to any
necessarily, this endeavour, according to the measure of his
ability and intelligence to produce or contribute to produce. Of These
results with the list, without any exception, and with but here
and there a faint and modification, will be found to coincide with
the list of the evils correspondent and opposite to the legitimate
ends of procedure.

Among the legitimate ends of procedure we have had occasion to
distinguish the collateral from the direct ends: the same distinction
has equal place in regard to the branches of these false and spurious ends.
Profit, reputation, power – in these three articles we may see so many
branches of the direct end: in the indulgence of the love of case, case in comparative exemption from labour we may
see the collateral end: In the pursuit of the three direct grand objects, profit, reputation
and power it is all along a collateral object: to the last of direct
objects it does not belong, since it might be obtained in a much more perfect
degree by the dereliction
than by the pursuit of those
other objects.

Identifier: | JB/058/191/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::19 continued, 20, 20 [sic]]]
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	191	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / e8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18860
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