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28 Feby 1808

On the Bench as well as at the Bar, every lawyer
here is listed by a perpetual retainer pledged to the defence of the abuses of the law.
The significant impression nod of the head – the irresistible power sway of the arm or all –
those symptoms of persuasion which are common to the Orator and the Tragedian –

Party again offers appears a most powerful obstacle
to every amendment inchoration of the law: but here again comes in
the spear of Telephus, the same instrument that inflicts the
wound being under a favourable fortunate arrangement of existing
circumstances, capable of now and then of assisting in the cure.

An honest lawyer, let us imagine, (for since golden
mountains may be imagined why not honest lawyers?) an
honest lawyer, brings in a bill of amendment, tending to accusing at the
removal of this or that one of the of studied injustices of
which jurisprudential law is composed. As in Athens,
by prescription of positive statute law, so in Britain by a custom state of society
which has the force of law, every man, especially at least every
an whose authority character or situation gives to his
authority a weight force sufficient to afford present him a chance of
gaining obtaining admission for to a proposed law, belongs to one or
other party. The imaginary lawyer in question, honest as he
is, must submitt to and take upon him the common lot.

The law by the supposition is a good one: and
so plainly and simply good, that to no man who to a moderate share
of common sense adds a grain of common honesty above
what is necessary to keep a man from the gallows, it can
in the nature of things be matter of doubt: as for instance
whether a man who has got into his hands the property of another another man's
money property, shall, by putting it into this or that particular shape,
have it in his power to cheat the right owner of it.

Identifier: | JB/091/320/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1808-02-28	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	320	Info in main headings field	on ld eldons bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	29316
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