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1828. Octr. 30.
Petition for Justice.
1. Case.
XI. XIII Jurisdiction Split

XIII Jurisdiction Split.

1
Plurality. Unity
X. Jurisdiction split.
By Judge-craft, originally,
and where plurality,
needful: by
accident, plurality
where unity.

2
Local: Logical.
Of Jurisdiction 2 fields.
Of local, division easy
and early.
Of Logical, difficult and
late.

3
Truth-finding Mode one
For coming at the truth,
in relation to facts,
last mode but one in
all cases.
Cause of Split.
Accident,
by degrees established
judicatories in multitudes,
each with a
different mode, no
one with the best.

4.
Judicatories resulting
Judicatories thus produced,
with the name
of the instruments
by which proceedings
were commenced. 1. King's Bench, indictment,
information,
afterwards add –
2. Common Pleas, action.
3. Exchequer, Information.
4. Spiritual Court, libel.
5. Equity Court, Bill.
6. Small debt Court
Summonses.
Compound of error,
useless and mischievous –
all this.

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X

5.
Logical field.
General idea of this
logical field.

6
Judges fighting
Exact demarcation
being impossible,
hence battles.

7
Weapons, lies
Weapons, chiefly his.

8
King Arbiter
Arbiter, virtually on directly
appealed to – sole
arbiter the King: even

9
Good Procedure: one.
Necessary to all suits
are
1. Definitive Execution.
2. Provisional precautionary
execution in some
cases.
3. Problem for both.

10.
Good Procedure one
Demand for them the
same in civil and
penal cases.

11
Penal & Civil Same
Dependants on a civil
suit may be a man's
whole fortune. In a criminal
suit, (death out
of the question) nothing
more is dependent than
do. To surrender of
property, men have preferred
imprisonment
for life.

12.
Penal & Civil, Same
No more than provisional
execution on
person without evidence
need be grudged: do. on
property on evidence:
for security on either
side, counter security
being found.

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X

13
Death, punishment
Out of the question
death will be, considering
it's vitious effects
extinction of evidence,
production
of uncertainty, thence
inefficiency of punishment,
extinction of
evidence, and possibility
of reparation in
cases of misdecision
&c when primeval
blindness has been
cured.

14
Judges names.
Names under which
Judge has been marked.

15
Sheriffs unapt
Instead of Sheriff,
servant of divers matters,
should have been
appropriate sub-ministers
to each Judicatory,
and should be

16
Equity suit Splitting
How in Equity each
suit is split into two.

17
Equity compells Mendacity
How in Equity, mendacity
is avowedly compelled.

18
Splinters infinite
Want of relief a ground
for Equity and Conscience
Courts, so for
and
any number of others.

19
Equity nullifies 100 Suits
After an hundred actions
for debts owing
to and by a person deceased,
each ripe for
judgment, fruitless
they may all be rendered
by an Equity
suit.

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20
Sham Commissions
Seeing this, Commissions
– two issued for looking
into Equity Courts –
eyes shut against
Common Law Courts
and vice versa.
Law and Equity kept
asunder that justice
may be kept unattainable.

Identifier: | JB/081/032/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1828-10-30	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-20
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	032	Info in main headings field	petition for justice
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d12 / e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1828
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1828
Notes public		ID Number	25819
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