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8 June 1805
Evidence

Of the system which gave to the Judge and his associates an interest
in the making of business, corruption it has thus been seen is an essential feature.
The unfitness opposition of the system to every end of justice was a necessary
consequence. Against this mischief the taking away of this sinister
and corruptive interest, would have been an effectual remedy: a
remedy of the very best kind, a preventive remedy, preventing the cause
of the mischief from coming into existence.

This remedy would have equally been applied and with effect nearly in either of
two shapes: by not suffering the Judge to derive any emolument from
the exercise of his office, or by giving him a fixed emolument: in
either case by interdicting him from all casual emoluments profits, derived from
incidents to which it was possible for him to give birth.

In the former shape it An arrangement of the former kind
has been seen subsisting in particular situations: but as a measure an arrangement of universal
extent, it can scarcely be found practicable. It is that sort The business is
of business which either occupies the greater part of mans time or at least takes the disposal of it man's time out of his hands:
and a sacrifice to any such extent will not in general be made without
a recompense: which recompense if it paid by the in the
shape of occasional fees must be paid in the shape of permanent salary
if not paid by the suitors must be paid by government, out of the
permanent public funds in the hands regularly flowing into its hands the hands of government.

Unfortunately in the first ages infancy of a political state when the
judicial along with the other departments of government came to be worked
out and its functions and mode of operations proceedings settled, there are never
any such settled funds.

Thus it is that Disastrous state condition of human existence! Every where, every every where it was necessary the disease
should be generated, and grew on for ages, before the remedy, the only remedy
could be applied: that generation after generation should be afflicted
by corrupt and pernicious judicature, before a chance for uncorrupt and
wholesome judicature could be afforded.

Nothing more simple, nothing more effectual, but at the same yet at that same time
nothing more unattainable than the remedy: in in these our times the mean time the disease
has grown up and grown to such a depth as well as height, that few d or no political diseases can be
so difficult to eradicate even.


Identifier: | JB/058/212/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.

Date_1

1805-06-09

Marginal Summary Numbering

14

Box

058

Main Headings

evidence

Folio number

212

Info in main headings field

evidence

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e8

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

18881

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