JB/091/129/001

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Decr 1806
Scotch Reform To Ld Grenville

☞ Rework paragraph 3, adjust to par. 31

Resolution 14. That such costs be allowed by this
House in cases of Appeal as may more effectually lead
to the discouragement of frivolous and vexatious Appeals.

More false views, my Lord, natural consequences results
of the fee gathering technical system – more inapprpriate and inefficient,
or rather perversely efficient expedients in consequence.

Vexatious Appeals, in effect yes: in as far as being unjust, they all unjust ones
are vexatious: in design, no: nor yet frivolous:
it is not in any such shape that the great bulk of the mischief likely
to flow from Appeals, is likely to cloath itself. Interested Appeals, unjust appeals produced
by the influence agency
of sinister interest,
these are the Appeals
from which the great
bulk of the mischief
flowing running in
his channel takes its
rise,
interested, yes. Judges, under the impulse of the
sinister interest given to them by the fee gathering system,
have held out encouragement to malâ fide suitors defendants, to
become Appellants, giving them, in the manner I have
submitted been submitting to Your Lordship, an a clear interest
in, a check a neat profit on condition of, so doing.
Defendants, yielding to the temptation, embrace accept the invitation,
and the consequences are – in England Writs of Error
for more delay, in the Exchequer Chamber, and so on to
the House of Lords: in Scotland,⊞ ⊞ applications for
Bills of Advocation and
Suspension, reclaiming Petitions
with removals in other forms, from the Outer to the Inner
House, (not to speak of occasional vibrations,) and so in Appeals
from the Inner House to the House of Lords.
Give us £20 to divide among us and ours, says the
and his reverend Colleagues – not in words indeed
but in acts and deeds which form a source so
in are rather more to be depended upon somewhat more trustworthy and improper – give
us our £20, we give you from a year to 1 1/2 year's
interest of the plaintiff's money – and the difference is all your own.

Identifier: | JB/091/129/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-12	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-4
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	129	Info in main headings field	scotch reform to ld grenville
Image	001	Titles	resolution 14. that such costs be allowed by this house in cases of appeal as may more effectively lead to the discouragement of frivolous and vexatious appeals
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29125
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