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28 March 1807

Such of you as think fit take an interest in the subject, have had
or will have had recourse to that work: it an address like this it is
impossible for me to repeat it.

In it I had occasion to speak largely and repeatedly of the
and in different forms of words, of ends of justice: giving effect to the rights and obligations established
or supposed to be established – to the premises and denominations uttered or supposed to be
uttered in and by the main body of the laws: and this on each
occasion with as little collateral inconvenience, in the shape of delay,
vexation and expence as possible.

At the same time a truth which however uncertain
I found myself under the continual necessity of holding up to
view, was that the very persons on whom it depended whether
the system of procedure, the system carried on under the action of for
pursuing the ends of justice should be conducive or not to those
desirable ends, were in point of so circumstanced, or to be
at once engaged by interest, and enabled by power to pursue and to pursue with
effect, ends of a personal nature repugnant to those public
ends: that their profit, being in a greater or less degree dependant
on the quantity of expence incurred by imposed on parties by the necessity
or prosecuting just claims and defending themselves against unjust
ones, and his expence being connected with and increased by
the delay and vexation with which attendant on such prosecution and self-defence
or as also with and by whichever and by the confusion and uncertainty in which all
rights and obligations are involved, hence the natural
study and endeavour of men of this class has in every country, and in Scotland among the rest, been to render place and keep the system of procedure the system
having professedly directed to for its sole object the furtherance of the ends of justice – the system of procedure
in effect in a state of as compleat repugnance to those ends
as the use of the community with the sovereign at its head could be
brought to endure.

Identifier: | JB/091/055/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1807-03-28	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	055	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29051
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