JB/058/201/001

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June 1805
Evidence

☞ Keep this as it is, or rewrite, setting out with the principles of remuneration
and quoting the London Police Act as an application of them.

§. 3. Corruption universal: cause, the mode in which the Judge took payment was paid.

We have been seeing how natural it was, whether there were or were
not in habitual exercise an authority under some such name as
that of legislative power one authority recognized as superior to that
of the Judge, and as such more competent to the establishment of
universally binding and settled rules regulations, how natural it was in what
ever other department of the field of legislature government the power of the legislator should
have exercised itself, that this narrow confined department, the conduct of the
business of judicial procedure should have been lodged or rather left
to fall of itself into the hands of the Judge. We come now to see
how natural, is is of rather necessary it was, that in the then
existing state of society in other respects, this power should have been
abused: abused to the utmost power if possible, not to say if conceivable
abuse: abused to the length of having given birth to those monstrous
systems of iniquity and depredation fraud and extortion which may be seen every where
administered under the name of justice.

Where a The principle of corruption The cause of all this abuse is extremely simple:
it consists altogether in the mode in which, in the instance of
the judicial office, reward was attached to labour, remuneration recompense to
service,⊞ ⊞ the quantity of pay
left capable of being encreased
with the quantity of labour real or apparent and the quantity of such labour
left capable of being
encreased to an indefinite
amount at the will of
the Judges. Even in the present days of a public opulence, much more in those days of poverty Of labour so applied, a quantity adequate to the demand
could not be had have been had without recompense wages: in those days of public indigence such recompense
could not have been administered attached itself to the service in the only form in
which, without giving birth to the ensuing corruption that it could have attached
itself, viz: that of settled salary, clear pure of incidental occasional emoluments,
such as in English are called fees. It might indeed have
been attached itself to labour and without producing any such corruptive
effect have been attached even in the shape of fees, could the occasions occasions had the number of incidents
productive of such fees been so circumstanced, as not to have been encreasable
by any industry endeavour on the part of the Judge, or even though they had been so encreasable,
if had not the pockets all of which they were to had being any others than if the
suitors been among the pockets out of which they were to come.

Identifier: | JB/058/201/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	201	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
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Notes public		ID Number	18870
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