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they are thrown into jail for life. [+] [+] ..... hundred miles from home. Who pities Why pity
them? They should have been understood Latin,
and they should have read Lord Coke, who
says in so many words, [+] [+] although it is not true, that "Delegata potestas
non potest delegan
." + + 2 Instit. 597. What follow? Meantime <add>It was true</add> The
power delegated power in question neither ever
had been executed nor by possibility could be executed,
without subdelegating the greatest part
of it to others. Just The administration of justice No matter: for Ld Coke was positive.
was therefore at an end: 10 eleven millions of people But the Mahometan [and gentro] judges <add>throughout the country were on their parts</add>
were left without [Then it was But it became the universal
opinion of the nation's judges as positive that it was better
being at large than in a jail. They fled accordingly from their duty The whole administration
of justice was therefore at an end: fabric of provincial justice was dissolved: the eleven
most atrocious criminals revelled in impunity. millions of people were country of Bengal was left without law. [+]3 [+]3 What signified this? The existence of nine eleven nine millions was the nation <add>millions of people had been</add> put in one scale, the latin maxim in the other: and the argumentive ut inconveniente had kicked the . [What But
matterd?] [The good old English common law
over those in alone the
of Lord Coke was magnified]
[It happened that] As Fortune <add>however would have it</add> there were those persons <add>other men</add> in the country
who had a greater regard for the preservation
of that country than for the latin maxims of of
Ld Coke. [The of these English
Judges were tried by same right that
] They
found another latin maxim which though not quite




Identifier: | JB/100/030/002
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100

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influence of time and place

Folio number

030

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place & time

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

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Notes public

ID Number

32046

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