JB/058/329/001

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10 April 1805
Evidence

5. It is the interest of the man of law that the arrangements made
to the people at large in the character of actual or potential suitors, considered
as capable of becoming suitors the arrangements made in the way
of law – the arrangements whereby their properties, liberties, powers
reputations and conditions in life are disposed of, should be as little
known as possible: accordingly the study of men of law on every
occasion, and on the occasion of the construction of the technical system of
procedure in particular, the study of the man of law has been
to keep these arrangements as much generally and compleatly unknown as possible.

To the man By this appropriate ignorance the profit interest of the
man of law is increased advanced in various a variety of different ways. 1. Not
knowing what sorts of acts are prohibited he committs, and thence comes the profit extractible from prosecution and defence demandant, prosecutor and defendant in a penal
cause. 2. Not knowing what are and what are not his rights in what way rights and obligations stand are distributed,
he claims some right which is not does not be his due: and thence comes the
profit extractible from demandant and ill grounded demands, and the defendant in a non-penal cause,
or else he refuses to comply with the demand made of some service
which he has under his obligation of rendering to some other person
to whom in virtue of a corresponding right such service is due: and
thence comes ill-grounded defences, and the profit extractible in this
way again from a non-penal cause.

3. Not knowing On each occasion on which he is called upon
to act, the occasion allowing time for consultation, not knowing what whether
the any arrangements have already been taken by the law in relation to that occasion,
nor if any what they are, or if none what on such occasion will be the arrangements
taken by the judicial authority in the event of his acting
so and so or not acting, he is thus finds himself driven to the necessity, if he has
wherewithal to defray the expence of consulting the man of law
in the shape of one to by whom on each occasion the arrangements taken by the legislator
or in his default likely to be taken by the Judge, are supposed to be
known and understood as the system seemed a decree of historical procedure. Rendering the laws as incapable of being known as possible difficulty of knowing what laws do exist, & what do not
exist as great as possible the knowledge of the tenor of the laws as difficult as possible.

Identifier: | JB/058/329/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	329	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	18998
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