JB/058/368/001

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11 June 1805
Evidence

Under the natural system, the Judge not having any interest in
keeping back or stifling the truth of the case, will bring it to light as quickly
and place it in as strong a light as possible. He will therefore
be sure to employ as of course those and only those arrangements that have already been pointed out
but arrangements that have already as the only ones that are efficacious
and competent to the that purpose. He will call before
the parties before him in the first instance, at the very outset
of the cause, and between the one and the other, he will get out
of them what each all that either of them known, or believe, or
wish, in relation to it: and thus, in a great majority of the
causes which are liable and wont to come before a Judge, the first
hearing, the first operation (after the ex parte application of the plaintiff one in which the summons
to the defendant are grounded) will also be the last will be the only one.

This speedy, this almost instantaneous, termination of the
cause is the very event which the author of the technical system
deprecates as the sum and substance of all calamity: it nips
all profit in the bud. He will do what depends upon him
to avert it. At all events he will do his utmost to keep
the truth from coming to light as long as possible: and
if it never does come comes to light, what care he? what difference does it make to him?
In many cases he has something to gain by the mishap,
as never has he any thing to lose by it.

Identifier: | JB/058/368/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	368	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19037
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