JB/091/066/001

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1 Febry 1807

To the plaintiff, in a Court (it not being a case of appeal)
belongs the choice as between Court and Court. The
plaintiff is in the great majority of causes in the right,
(wishing for relief rather than for vengeance) or, what to this purpose comes to the same thing, thinks himself
so. The plaintiff therefore, if he be at judiciously as well as honestly
advised, will supply to that one of the Two Courts in
which the security against misdecision is the greatest to
appearance the greatest, and, if there be any difference, the probable quantity of inconvenience
in the shape of delay, vexation and expence, the least.
If he be honestly advised – that is if his adviser the Attorney
the Writer to the , prefers the his Client's interest to his own
profit and convenience. But is it always so certain that he
will do so? He is better acquainted more at home with the practice and the
practisers in the worse conducted than in the better conducted
Court: he has particular connections among the Advocates at
the one Court, and not at the other Court: and so on forth.

If he be judiciously advised – that is if his advisor the Attorney be
a competent Judge if the estimate formed by the Attorney of
the comparatively probability of good judicature as between
Court and Court, in respect of the several qualifications possessed by the
several Judges, but more particularly of by the presiding Judge,
be correct: but will it be so? – Without entering into Not to enter engage in any such
so endless a task as that the task of forming a list of judicial endowments, with a view an estimate
of their comparative importance, the advantage which, brilliancy
or on this as well as so many other occasions, brilliancy
is so apt to obtain over solidiity is sufficiently notorious.

Identifier: | JB/091/066/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1807-02-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 11 - or 13
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	066	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29062
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