JB/058/210/001

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1 June 1805

☞ Here of in a prior rationale. After the purport an application to the several
ends of justice separably a feeble purpose of shewing that Bribery applies almost
exclusively to undermine not to Vexation, Expence & delay.

§. 5. Channels through Shapes in which the matter profit of corruption is
capable of app may find its way to the bosom of the Judge.

It has been shewn above already that where the connection
between service and reward is formed in the manner
in question, every particle of reward whatever portion of reward the matter of reward which the Judge
can hope to possess himself of by operations directed
to that end, becomes operates upon his mind, every particle
of it, in the way of corruption a sinister direction: the matter of reward
became fault oris changed as it were by a change not the less but the more effectual
by being latent quiet and imperceptible, the matter of reward becomes transformed into the matter of corruption
that

A point distinction carefully to be observed is – that
it is in the mode of connection only, of the connection
between the service and the reward, not in the quantum magnitude
of the reward, that this so disastrous a change depends: and
that any of any measure, when connected in a different the connection is formed
in the conscious and proper mode, is not to operate act
as a ferment, but on the contrary as a check.

If by adding to the number of operations performable performed, and thence
of fees receivable from the aggregate number of suits in a
year, that aggregate remaining the same, it be in the power
of the Judge to encrease his annual emolument from £200
a year to £400, the prospect of such the additional £200 a
year, operates acts upon his mind in the character form and direction of a
bribe. Whereas if, instead of being thus capable of
being done by his own sinister exertions doubled, it be were quadrupled
to him in the shape of salary, no such effect smaller influence takes place.

Identifier: | JB/058/210/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	12
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	210	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18879
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