JB/058/388/001

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18 June 1805
Evidence

I read I now turn to the Memoirs Memorials of the Advocates of the practising under this
system of procedure, the stories told by in the name of the parties
by the Cochins the Maichons, the Linguists of the French Bar.
I turn over the miscellaneous and abridged histories of causes: under
the name of Causes Celebres, and then I behold the consequence.
Falshoods heaped upon Falshoods, and not only falshoods uttered in the
hope of detection, but falshoods of which the proof not only the legal detection is certain but the
utter falsity notorious from the first years together spent by one party
or by both parties in the accumulation of these falshoods, 6, 8,
10, 12 years of the life of one or both the parties embittered and
filled with distress in all its forms, loss of property, reputation,
liberty, every thing frequently at the end of this curser of slow torture,
loss of the that life of which it had destroyed the value.

By a sort of happy treachery the secrets even if individual
still more readily of professional inequity, will in the warmth of argument
be betrayed by casual imprudence. I shave turn again
to those ingenious and entertaining productions of written professional eloquence, and again and again⊞ what a man may be sufficiently abundantly assured of without any such confession, viz:
I find confirmed by that confession what may sufficiently be any man may see without any such confession
I find a confession that under the natural system of procedure,
under an obligation on the part of the parties to face each other
at the outset of the cause in the presence of the Judge, the abominations
there displayed, in a word all the abominations of which
the system practice of technical procedure is made up, would have been
utterly radically impossible.(a)

Note

(a) See amongst others the case of the Marquis des Brosses in Plaidoyer de
Loyseau de Mauléon 8vo Vol. I Londres (Paris) 1780. For above the
years the younger brother wife of this unfortunate man, and his brother, sometimes
in and conjunction sometimes separately, keep him in a state of
torment. It is on the occasion of this scene of wretchedness that he observes
"La presence des Marquis des Brosses sur les lieux, (viz: in the presence of the Court in question), une defense plus attentive, les circonstances
mieux connais, lui auraient surement 'epargne' les mortification de cet
Arrêt. Il aurait tort cependant de se plaindre. Tout est bien dans l'ordre de la
Justice.

Identifier: | JB/058/388/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	3 continued, 3a
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	388	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public		ID Number	19057
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