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PROCEDURE HIGH-WAY ACT TURNP Double Costs

At the time I wrote this I know not (for who
could have imagined) that according in the language of the Law or rather
of as daring abuse which has eaten out the
heart of Law, double means only, half as much again
treble, half & a quarter as much again, & so on

Thus to use the illustration of the another of an ingenious title tract. + which first put me on the enquiry, rr the Masters, Prothonotaries & other Officers who tax costs, allow, when the single costs amount to £100 for double only £150 for double for treble, only £175. I have been assured by Practitioners that nominal costs thus of good trebled, frequently come short of those actually incurred. I see no reason to doubt the rectitude of this whereas there were who first devised what intentions: they thought to do an act of mercy in softening a vigorous provision.

The Lords & Commissioners of <add>Little do The Powers who give Laws unto this</add> this Realm little concern
that while and the exercise of this they are occupied <add> occupying themselves as they think </add> that most exalted
function of humanity privilege there sits that scribbler
at his desk who shall turn all what they have written
into Waste-paper.

Buen would have called, this construction

A few examples of this flagrancy are would be sufficient
to destroy all confidence in the Law from among
Weak reasons! who knows not, that better it was the arm of Law should with ten-fold severity, than be loosed by their unhallowed hands the people — Eyes are not to be trusted: Common
Sense is a deceiver: the most elementary knowledge
of the plainest & most incontestible principles of Arithmetic
is an incumbrance [+]

+ Dialogue on the Game Laws Printed for Wilkins - 1771.

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I must own it would be a spectacle A spectacle it would be to me, I must acknowledge not unpleasing
a one because I think it would be an useful one, to see some
of these [Gentle]men who are wiser than the Laws
[brought] on their knees before an insulted Legislation
to own their folly — What I may is here complain'd of has no
application to these Gentlemen, unless they are the first Authors who one nearing
possession of occupy these departments — Custom with the possession of their is to
them a sole & warrantable guide: & this custom
is inveterate.

[+] Whoever from the knowledge of knowing of ... this deficiency the inadequacy
of the recompence desists from a prosecution, is
an evidence of the a mischief done to the suffer'd by Public.
in the good faith of the Law engager & Whoever engages in one from not knowing if it engages
in one, is an individual insulted injured <add> </add> & abused.

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Identifier: | JB/095/084/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 95.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	095	Main Headings
Folio number	084	Info in main headings field	procedure turnp. double costs
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	l v g
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	30970
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