JB/058/430/001

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27 May 1805
Evidence

☞ In the history of Parliamentary amendments of the shew that no complaint
has ever been made but what was well-founded. 1 Parliament never interfered
but they did some good – 3. They never did anything near the good
that remained to be done.

The question respecting the justifiability of the technical system
ma be brought to a very short issue. It has such and such
arrangements in it that are in the natural system the existing summary system have no place.
Take them one after another and say to the man of law, this
arrangement is it conducive as any, and that any thing, to that other of the several
ends of justice. he stand mute – for and he will stand
most assuredly) the charge may safely be taken pro confesso:

Vexation and expense are evils or there is no such thing as
evil. By whomsoever produced, the is is on him that the burthen
of proof the same his, the proof that that evil is
no more than what is stands connected with a good that over balances
it.

Let the answer required be of that complexion cast and tendency
– let all nonsense nonsense in all its forms, sophistry in all its forms – all that which under the name
of reasoning, men of law has have ever been so ready to pay the world public with and
to pretend to pay themselves with – bar and bench at the bar, and on the bench –without the
spirit of prophecy it may be predicted – every where there will
be a dead the profoundest silence.

To repeat transcribe in tenor or even in substance the whole tenor
of that clears, in to which the existing system of procedure is
consigned involved would not be endurable on the part of any man,
nor therefore could without absurdity is to be attempted by the writer of these pages.
This however is no more than what he may take upon him to
say, and does venture presume to say – I you through the whole of it
and almost the whole of it is unnecessary, useless, pernicious,
a mass of trash of the worst foolish kind, heaped together for the worst
of purposes. You who accuse him of temerity, produce
the part, produce if you can the part that merits not this censure. He stands in readiness & as one ready to accept
the challenge.

Identifier: | JB/058/430/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-05-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-3
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	430	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	cw 1799
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. abbit lees
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1799
Notes public		ID Number	19099
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