JB/058/414/001

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31 March 1805
Evidence

When in the hearsay presence of an English lawyer a man of law, any complaint
is made of the expensiveness, vexatiousness and dilatoriness of the established existing
regular technical mode, the only defence or possible apology known to trust to he can employ
is gr consists in the assertion notion or rather the what is more impressive
as well as easier, the tacit assumption, that the regular mode
is good in respect of with reference to the direct the main end of justice in a proportion
exceeding in a greater or less degree its imperfection with
reference to those collateral ones. Summary justice is indeed
better than none at all, but it is of an inferior quality,
inferior in proportion to the low inferior price put upon it. Those that
can not afford to go to the price of the best sort must take up with
this inferior sort: but regular justice is the sort of justice that
would be sold on all occasions, sold to this poor as well as rich
if it could be afforded to them at that price the price of summary.

This only plea, will I trust, in point of fact, appear be found already to be have been
pretty satisfactorily refuted: – that the technical mode system is as
decidedly repugnant to the direct, as it is to those collateral ends of
justice: that the cheapest cheap sort of justice is the only good one: and
that it is the nature of the dear sort to grow worse in every respect in proportion to the dearness of the price.

Identifier: | JB/058/414/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-03-31	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	414	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public	"superseded?"	ID Number	19083
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