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8 July 1806
Evidence Scotch Reform

Such then being in the present state of things, the relation between the two interests viz. that of diametrical opposition the next
point to be enquired into is the possibility of conciliation, which
leads of course to an enquiry for into the cause in from which the opposition
took its rise.

This cause, a most prominent one has been already indicated: the shape in
which the in Scotland, or in England, not to speak of other countries
the wages of learned labour find their way into the hands of the men of law
the man of law receives a retribution for his service or pretended
service.

Fees, payable on the occasion under the name of reward retribution for each service
or pretended service, express the shape in which the wages of
this kind of labour present themselves. If it were altogether out
of the power of the labourer workman either to increase or diminish the
number of those occasions, or the quantity of labour in relaity or appearance necessary on each, the their mode of payment would be not
only unexceptionable but eligible. Unfortunately it
has been in the power of lawyers of the man of law in former antient times to
give continual increase to the number of those profitable profit-yielding occasions,
as well as to the quantity of service or sham service rendered on each
occasion bestowed upon each: it has remained still in the power of the man
of law of modern times, if not to add make any very proportionable considerable addition to the futility of those
sources of profit, at least to protect it against decrease.
More unfortunately still to put draw into the pocket of any individual
lawyer a small particle of profit portion of the matter of fees taking each lawyer individually,
he has been in the case of a surveyor or other agent
employed in expenditure paid by a per centage: to put for
every shilling put into his own pocket he has been obliged
to draw a pound with its attendant delay and vexation out of the pocket of this employer.

Identifier: | JB/091/026/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-07-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	026	Info in main headings field	scotch reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	29022
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