JB/081/083/001

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1829. Sept. 12 19.
Most Abridged Petition.

21.
Uncognosabily Effects.
Laws are made and left
unknowable.
Consequences these
1. Benefit of right lost.
2. Evils from wrong produced.
3. Punishment inflicted on
non-wronger.
4. Punishment escaped by
wronger.

22.
Uncognosabily Effects
Every man left exposed
to disappointment by
loss of his all.

23.
Examples
1. Personal proprietor,
by groundless arrest.
2. Real proprietor, by
dormant claims.

24.
Common Law unknowable purposely bad.
Statute law the only safe
guide to
for the purpose of subjecting
men to Judge-made
law which
being a mere fiction
is effectually unknowable,
and is made
by one who to the interest
had the power of
making it as bad as
it can be endured to be.

25.
Codification Opposed
Of all-comprehensive
real law, for fear of and
to prev its being made,
they & their confederates,
protest the making to be
impossible.

26.
Codification Opposed
Devices for it off –
1. Consolidation vice codification.
2. (Though the whole is so
interwoven that for one
part any tolerable provision
can be made without consideration
of the whole),
taking a part,
and the committing each to a
different set of men not
for codification but for
consideration.
3. Making alteration
if good would occupy
years by thousands, before
the work was completed.

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or 1. p.10.
Procedure Parties unlearned
Unlearned parties from
whom the truth would
be got at once will not
be
who to interest
add the power of
giving vast increase to
delay & expense.
Lawyers official and
judicial having a common
sinister interest.

or 2. p.10.
Merit
So shameless are they
as avowedly to ground
decrees on parts foreign
so in other words committing
injustice.

or 3. p.10
Merits
For example, debarring
a man of his right,
or giving a criminal
impunity because a
Clerk has inserted a
wrong letter or an
immaterial word
in a useless instrumt.

or 4. p.10
Merits Impunity
Thus without
giving impunity to
the most atrocious
criminals.

or 5. p.10
Merits Impunity
Example a man who
had wantonly cut a
child's head off.

or 6. p.11.
Merits Impunity
By confederacy with a
Clerk, money obtainable by
forgery or murder with
impunity.

or 7. p.11.
Merits Impunity
In Equity, no such groun
groundless decisions:
Law the more inexcusable.

or 8. p.11.
Merits Arbitrariness
Groundless decisions
optional: thence arbitrary
power.

or 9. p.11.
Mendacity
By all superior judges
mendacity licensed, &c.
for lucre.

or 10. p.11.
Mendacity
Judge persuades a
criminal to say
Not Guilty.

or 11. p.11.
Mendacity
Judge persuades a Jury
to declare a criminal
Not Guilty.

or 12. p.11.
Security none.
Under such Judges
security none.

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or 13. p.12.
Fraudulent Extortion
Money extorted on false
pretences in Equity & Law.
Cause – Day-payment.

or 14. p.12.
Vacations
By vacations between
terms & assizes, innocent
& guilty confined with
the guilty for a year
thus the hypocritically
lamented contamination
produced.

or 15. p.12.
Equity Expense
By Equity an infant
Girl's £10,000 fortune divided
among lawyers:
husband finds her pennyless.

or 16. p.12.
Regular
Regular this system
stiled: summary is not
only most expeditive,
but most conducive
to right decision.

or 17. p.13.
Expense
In Bankruptcy & Insolvency
lawyer's come
before creditors and commonly
swallow up the
whole.

or 18. p.13.
Why not work
Causes why under such
Institutions Law Judicatory
and Procedure society
is not dissolved.
1. False opinion of aptitude,
thence would-be
wrong-doers deterred.
2. Public Opinion.
Necessary to reconciliation
is dissipation of
the useful error.

or 19. p.13.
False Cause Nature
Per Lawyers, source of
the evils not their
depravity but the
nature of things.

or 20. p.14.
Equity Delay
In Equity, an answer
which, to a Justice of the
Peace would bring out
in a minute may
be deferred for more
than 5 years, after
which no remedy but
by a Common Law suit:
nullible by Injunction
wronger having wrongee's
money all the while:
their Appeal upon
Appeal.

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or 21. p.14.
Equity Delay
In default of witness
who knows the handwriting
or has done
seen the man write
wrongee may be forced
into Equity to produce
acknowledgement –
Common Law will
not put the question.

or 22. p.14.
Prayer
1. Abolish Written Pleadings.
2. Discourse none, but
what, in so far as false,
may be punished.
3. Epistolary elicitation
none, but n default
of oral, or to save delay
and expense.
4. For Appeal's sake
all such evidence recorded.

22
Rich men favoured.
How, will Judge and
Co for instruments,
wealth being in requisite
proportion, any
men may glut rapacity
a groundless
halved at the expense
of any man.

Identifier: | JB/081/083/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-09-19	Marginal Summary Numbering	21-25, or 1 - or 21, 22
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	083	Info in main headings field	most abridged petition
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	25870
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