JB/058/218/001

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June 1805
Evidence

Between corruption in the shape of bribery, and corruption
in this shape, there is another distinction and that a
most serious momentous one. In the shape of Bribery like the sort of the
English lawyers it dies with the person: in the shape of
this one unheeded and immeasurable undenominated species, of corrupt it lives
with the system, and endures for ages and even by age, and grows more venerable by age lives as long as that
does, and grows ranker and ranker the longer it has lived.

Bribery Bribe-taking is the wish of an instant, and dies as
soon as born. In the other case the profit made by the first purchaser, (to speak as
an English lawyer) descends to successors, and descends
pure: pure not only of all danger but of all blame.

Bribery is seldom employed but to produce misdecision: ultimate
injustice to one or the other side. But of this corrupt corruptive connection it injustice
is equally apt to be the fruit in all its shapes: in the shape
of vexation, expence and delay more naturally and directly than
in the shape of misdecision in favour of for or against either side.

When under the influence of this principle of corruption,
a system corrupt throughout, adverse throughout to the ends of justice
has been produced, it applies the poison of it applies itself of course to all sorts of causes
and to each individual cause of every sort: whereas when it is
only in the shape of the bribery that the cause of injustice is
applied, the effects of it, except in the shape of danger and
alarm, the mischief that pat of the mischief of it which is of the first order, is confined to the
individual cause on the occasion of which the bribe is given
and accepted received.

Identifier: | JB/058/218/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-6
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18887
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