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1829. May 21.
Petitions

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Supplement.
§. II Elucidations
§.2. Small Debt Courts.

§. Small Debt Courts. Scotch and English.

Second source of elucidation for the here
proposed summary procedure system — the Small Debt Court System. But, to
this there are two distinct and in many respects different branches —
Hitherto two objects [and no more than
the English and the Scotch. Thus then the encreased
two] have been seen running alongside of each other in
to four is the number of the lines of which this second parallelism
parallelism; another of the summary cast being added, henceforward
is composed. Fortunately for present purposes comes just
there will be three 1. principal System the one
now upon the parliamentary carpet the Scotch Small Debt Court
here proposed elucidation system, the the Justice of Peace system
regulation Bill: (a) in and by which the so far as regards the present
time, and the Small Debt Court system.
the procedure system of that country presents itself to best advantage.
Number of objects running along in
parallelism, as yet but two: now three — the here proposed
Now then for the uses by which the introduction thus given
system the Justice of Peace system, and the Small Debt Court
to this foreign object in the character of an instrument of elucidation
system. Fortunately came in just now a Parliamentary
was suggested: and not only consideration but precedence
Bill — the Scotch Small Debt Court regulating Bill: a
given to it. All comprehensiveness
document specially well adapted to this purpose (a). All comprehensiveness
unity of design, unity of execution, cognoscibility —
in the provision made, on this part of the field,
by Scottish legislation, all these properties may be seen
conjoined: in that made by English legislation, not one
of them, thence it is that it is to the Scottish system that
on the present occasion, for the present purpose, that precedence
is given, though English alone is the law for which
and English alone the readers are, for whom, the instruction
is designed. of them. A continued tract — cultivated, marked
out and mapped, is the Scottish System: a few spots, cultivated
indeed, but all of them upon a system more or less different;
set down in the boundless waste, at vast and
immense distances one from another, like the Oases
in the African desert, compose the aggregate extent of the
local field, of the aggregate of the English Small Debt
Court stiled in the Stat. 27 G.2.c.16.§.2 "Courts of Request
and Conscience."

Note (a)
(a) Title of it "A Bill for the effectual Recovery
of Small Debts, and for diminishing the Expense of
Litigation in Cases of Small Amount in the Sheriff's
Courts in Scotland." It forms No 3 of the H. of Commons'
papers belonging to the Sessions of this year 1829.

Identifier: | JB/081/339/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-05-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	339	Info in main headings field	petitions
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d41 / e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	street & co
Marginals		Paper Producer	antonio alcala galiano
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	26126
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