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26 Decr 1806
Scotch Reform To Ld Grenville

Translated out of jargon into plain English, the distinction
of English law between right possession and right of possession, between
right of possession and right of property, is neither more nor less but no other than the distinction
between a provisional right set of rights and a definitive right – between
a defensible and indefensible one. With the help of
jargon, so successful have English lawyers been in the
organization of their chaos system of confusion and pillage, that where real property is
in question, a judgment really final in effect is almost without
example: Judgment in Ejectment is but provisional interlocutory: the
final
judgement on a Writ of Right, or decree on a Bill for granting possession is the final judgement
that corresponds to it.

If in any case, without danger of exposure to punishment, or
even to disrepute, it be in the power of the Court below, to
frame a decision which shall being
by an interlocutory
judgement, or a series chain of interlocutory judgements, to produce
the effect of a final one, the jurisdiction of the Court above,
the House of Lords, is by the prohibition law in question proposed
laid at the mercy feet of the Court below: and if my view the view here given of the
matter be correct, the cases will in comparison be few and
narrow, in which this virtual indirect ouster would experience any
difficulty.

For producing usurpations of this sort – usurpations
encreasing in a series without limit to which there is no certain limit, how much less astution
and boldness would be necessary to Scotch Judges than what
has so often been exemplified by English ones!


Identifier: | JB/091/121/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.

Date_1

1806-12-26

Marginal Summary Numbering

8-10

Box

091

Main Headings

scotch reform

Folio number

121

Info in main headings field

scotch reform to ld grenville

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c1 / e4

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

iping 1804

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

bernardino rivadavia

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1804

Notes public

ID Number

29117

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