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Feby 1808

In the Court of Justitiary, one of the sitting or rather
riding in the Circuit – one of those ambulatory justici
judicatures in out of which justice is scattered among suitors decisions are thrown out of the window
like at half time turning beggars as the great man is travelling
past, those factitious delays are not made, forasmuch
as for want of time and it is impossible they
should be made.

If in the mode course of Appeal pursued in the Bill
Chamber there be anything really conducive to any of the purposes
of justice, the House is an imperfect substitute unprovided as it is destitute
as it is of a Bill Chamber, is an imperfect edifice,
and a manufactory of delay under that name and
for that purpose a manufactory of delay ought to be added with all speed.

In the appellate jurisdiction given of the Court of Justitiary
the want imperfection of a Bill Chamber may stand excused by
the precipitation attached to ambulatory judicature,
and atoned for in some measure by extending to the extension given of the
faculty of appeal to suits which otherwise would have
remained, unavoidably inevitably destitute of that advantage.

But the House of Lords not being upon wheels
the want of a Bill Chamber attached to that imperial
judicatory can no otherwise be defended than by the
supposing need assuming what will be found to be the
truth that the difference circumstances whereby the
proceedings of mode of procedure pursued in the Edinburgh Bill Chamber differ in this respect
from the mode pursued in the superior appellate judicatory
are all of them compose all together a mass of pure art
opposite to the ends several ends of justice.

Identifier: | JB/091/234/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-15	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	234	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4 / c2 / d28 / e25
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	29230
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