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24 Jany 1808

Advocation and Suspension

When Jury is the proposed subject of enquiry, the first
question is whether in any new cases it is to be introduced established
at all.

Where Advocation and Suspension are the subjects of enquiry
the continuance of these tortuous modes of Appeal is
assured: "whatever regulations" may be "proper to be adopted
"in relation to them": so that the question whether
they shall be continued or no is not, (if any the best
interpretation I can put upon a clause passage turning as it appears
to me with obscuring and ambiguity be conformable
to the intended meaning of it) is not to be brought into
doubts.

On that subject topic, a supposing the ends of justice
to have been really in view the objects aimed at, not a very thick consideration
might have sufficed to show not only for the propriety of starting the question, but the only way in which proper way of deciding
upon it it ought to be decided.⊞
⊞ For a warrant this
decision all that is
necessary to be known,
is what is known
to every Scotch lawyer
and disputed by
no one, viz. that
Advocation and Suspension
are contrivances
for producing the same
effect as is produced
by Appeal, but preceded clogged
with by a prodigiously
greater mass of delay
vexation and expence. The Bill or Petition praying Letters
of Advocation is in effect an Appeal from an Interlocutory decision
of the Court below, Bill or Petition for Letters of Suspension
are Appeals from a final one, then whatsoever
effect is produced in those most scandalously and corruptly
dilatory vexatious and expensive modes, is in as everybody two most
in Scotland prominent and notorious instances produced also
in the less dilatory vexatious and expensive mode. These
are ever since the , Appeal to the House of Lords, and
ever since the Acts for the abolishing heritable jurisdictions (20
G. 2. C. 45.) the Court of the Justitiary.

Identifier: | JB/091/237/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-01-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	237	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles	advocation & suspension
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	29233
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