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27 July 1806
Evidence Scotch Reform

The first point for noble Lords to settle in their own minds, are
to which of the two opposite interests – the interest of the suitor
and the interest of the man of law – shall receive the preference.
I say opposite far more decidedly opposite and irreconcilably
opposite, as matters have stood hitherto, no two sets of interests can be. It is the interest
of the suitor that whatever is administered under the name of justice
be administered with as little delay, vexa expense and vexation
in other shapes as possible. It is the interest of the man of law
that the quantity of delay, expense and vexation may at all in every
time occasion be as great as possible: that is, as great as the people
in their character of suitors are by habit, and prejudice, and
ignorance darkness and misconception misrepresentation be lulled into the endurance of.
Of Expense because of the money extracted out of the pocket of the suitor
in the shape of expenses, a great part goes out part more or less considerable is drawn in the shape of
profit, in the shape of fees, into the pocket of the man of law: and
of delay that which does not the part which goes into other pockets, the distinction is so inseparably
connected with the lawyer's share, that when as the one part receives
increase in denomination, the increase in denomination of the other
follows of course. Of delay, because either something in the character of
cause or effect the connection between the incidents that have been made breed delay
and the incidents that have been made to breed fees lawyer's profit
is inseparable. Of vexation: because though no fees lawyer's profit spring
directly out of the vexation of the suitor, abstractedly considered
any more than any enjoyment passes on immediately and in
a direct line into the bosom of the butcher from the dying agonies
of the lamb, inasmuch as it is not in nature that the lawyer
should be particularly sollicitous or active in the inflicting nature is sollicitous about the infliction of vexation
in for its own vexation's sake, yet as it is impossible that therefore
profit should ever be received by the lawyer but vexation, and that rising and falling
in proportion to the profit must be suffered by the suitor, the best that can happen to the suitor, is
that his vexation should, in the eyes of the lawyer, by whom his fate is depend of, as an object of condescension.

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Date_1	1806-07-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	023	Info in main headings field	scotch reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29019
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