JB/081/048/001

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1828. Decr. 24
Petition for Justice
Marginals by G.B.
1. Cases
IV. Mendacity
III. Practical

1. Poetry
Mendacity practical
what.

2. Poetry
Falshood by men at large;
termed falshoodily Judge-termed
fiction.

3. Poetry
Fiction poetical and
judicial: poetical in
it's general nature
noxious.

4. Poetry
Judicial in every instance
productive
of deception and prejudicial.

5. Poetry
The term lie appropriately
applied to judicial
falshood.

6. Poetry
Judicial lies called
by the same name as
poetical fiction, is as
if arsenic were called
sugar.

7. Immorality
By judicial fiction
power obtained on
false pretences.

8. Immorality
If obtaining money
on false pretences is
immoral, so it is as
to obtaining power.

9. Immorality
If obtaining money
on false pretences presents
a demand for
legal punishment,
so as to obtaining
power.

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10. Originally not.
Power not originally
so obtained as it was
in the hands of rulers
without the need of
lies.

11. Injuries
On every occasion of
first uttering one of
these lies persons injured –
1. the functionary
whose power
was thus diminished:
2. the people at
large.

12. Injuries 1. Judge
Functionary whose
power thus diminished
either the sovereign
or another
Judge.

13. Injuries 1. Judges.
In each instance,
deception the sole
object.

14. Injuries King
Suffering on the part
of the sovereign, nominal
only.

15. Injuries Judges
Not so on the part
of the Judges – stealing
power from them
was stealing fees.

16. Injuries King
Under Charles II.
wars between Judge
and Judge for fees.

17. Injuries 3d People
Real sufferers, the
people.

18. Mischief.
Power thus obtained
by mendacity licence
is in it's essence, arbitrary.

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19. Mischief
Accordingly, no fiction
so palpably
mendacious.

20. Mischief Recourses
Example, common
recovery fiction.

21. Mischief Recoveries
Persons stolen from –
1. Children, in whose
favor property intended
to be secured.
2. Land owners who
paid the fees for the
alienation.
3. Conveyancers cheated
of their fees, by
Judges.

22. Mischief Recoveries
Absurd indemnity
from the Cryer of the
Court.

23. Mischief Recoveries
Cryer's seat, supposed
to be a gold
mine, sending forth
the streams of gold
at Judge's command.

24. Mischief
These fictions a real
gold mine to Judge
& Co.

26. Object good now
Some political good
may have flowed
from some of these
fictions.

27. Object good never.
But evil greatly preponderant.

28. Uses Judge.
Uses to which this
fiction applied besides
power stealing

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28 contind. Uses Judge.
and money stealing,
are –
1. benefit by means of
confusion.
2. Arbitrary power obtained
by the double
Fountain.

Identifier: | JB/081/048/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1828-12-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-28
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	048	Info in main headings field	petition for justice marginals by gb
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
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