JB/091/218/001

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17 Feby 1808

1. Contents or Topics of , Regulations reflecting
the Judicial Establishment.

1. Sections 1, 2, 3. The whole number of Judges to be present Court
distributed Court of Session to be to most purposes separated broken
into two "Divisions": in Division the first, the Lord President
and seven other Judges: in Division the 2d, the Lord Justices
Clerk, and the six remaining Judges: in each division
an equal number of Lords of Justiciary, reckoning the Lord
Justices Clerk for one.

In section 2d, respecting procedure, a proviso in which
not comprehending it clearly, especially when compared with
subsequent sections, I will dare not take upon me to report.

2. Section 6 gives, tofor here we take a leap except as excepted, gives to each
of those Divisions, the Duties, Powers and Functions are now
exercised as by the whole.

3. Sect. 7. undertakes to give to each Division its quorum
number: but notwithstanding the success obtained on other occasions,
finding on this occasion the subject beset infected with
doubts and difficulties, instead of a number, gives a
. Not having anything rational to adduce in the
character of a reason, should it happen to his observation to

Unprovided with that cloak which ordinary prudence
presents to incapacity, should it happen to him to have let drop
from that commanding station the effusions of ignorance or
imbecillity, the damage will not be great: for lest
now and then it should happen to incapacity to
have let drop that necessary cloak, care has been taken, and may care as
effectual as it has been anxious, that reasons, good or bad,
flowing from that high source, shall not, by publication, be
rendered accessible visible to unlearned eyes.

Identifier: | JB/091/218/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	3, 3a, 4-5, 21
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	218	Info in main headings field	on ld eldons bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e12
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	29214
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