JB/058/352/001

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13 April 1805
Evidence

A shop for the sae of what may be called oppression-licences, in hope by the Judge licences conferring
upon each purchaser the faculty of oppressing to the length
of utter ruin, any one out of many millions of individuals
at his choice, is kept open by the Judge under the name
of a Court of Justice. Terms of purchase Conditions of such, so much money;
together with a tie to a certain effect: a tie from which
all danger of punishment, under the name of punishment, and
all shame as far as possible all chance, not only of punishment but of shame, has effectually
and to all appearance studiously, been obstructed. A system of regular oppression
organized, to be carried into effect by a principal of corruptionthe morals of the people corrupted, by a stream perpetually
corrupting the morals of the people by the infusion of flowing into it from one of the highest grounds in the state
a person applying itself to the most vital parts of the mental frame – all for the
benefit of the its author – the maker and minder – the man of law. Of the profit, one part flows in
through various a variety channels into the pocket of the Judge, by whom whose
authority after having been organized by him his predecessors it is kept up, and on
each occasion carried into practice. The remainder, under his
inspection distributes itself, in a variety of proportions, among
his friends and dependents – among a set of persons, men some professional some
some and official – all more or less intimately connected with him by
some tie or ties of interest or sympathy. had in the for which
But to gather in this profit, partly by his own hands, partly by
the hands of his those connections and dependents, it is was necessary that he
should refuse ever to set eyes set eyes on a suitor ever so much as to suffer a suitor to come into his
presence, untill he has run the gauntilope throughout through the whole
line of these licenced depredators plunderers. Such is his profit; such the
fee price fixed upon it, and such the price he is content not ashamed to pay
for it.

Identifier: | JB/058/352/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-04-13	Marginal Summary Numbering	5-6
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	352	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19021
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