JB/091/239/001

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27 Jany 1808

What? You he an Englishman a foreigner – under take upon you
to draw up a body of law for us in Scotland?

Yes: howsoever far competent or incompetent in other respects in other respects far from being competent equal
to the task, in the circumstance of being a foreigner, and in
particular this sort of foreigner, there is nothing to make me him more
incompetent, much to make me him less so.

Be his country what it may, what lies before him
he can read: and of what that which he reads wherever he fails of understanding
the meaning he can enquire.

1. To one function and that alone his foreignership
would render him the less incompetent: and for that he does not undertake –
it not being necessary to the purpose. On a case stated
by a Client to a lawyer Counsel for his opinion on the question
What in such or such a point is the decision likely to be to
qualify him the lawyer – for giving the barest safest guide is – not he who
is best acquainted with the state of the law in so far as it
is may be discoverable in the on the face of the printed and its books, and other generally accessible
documents, but to who he on the from personal acquaintance habitual intercourse
with the Judges has is in a way to form on each point
the most probable conjecture what their opinions will be.
This is the function to which a foreigner would be essentially compet incompetent: and this is an article a species of information which
for to the purpose in question, it would be little or no use. is not necessary a man should
possess.

Identifier: | JB/091/239/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-01-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	239	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	29235
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