JB/106/087/001

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1 March 1807

Very different is the case much more extensive is the mischief where the subject of the erroneous
decision is the point of law. The appropriate judge of the point
of law is a permanent Judge functionary. In whatever whichever part of his
mental frame, the intellectual or the moral, the error originated
the danger the presumption is is that it may be, that it will be, repeated. Individuals
whose security in respect of theirperson, property, reputation condition
in life depends upon the rectitude of his decision, see that
security shaken: a pain of apprehension, more or less intense
in proportion to the enormity of the error aberration, takes possession of each invades in every
brain.

This is not all. For on the question point of law,
each Judge in his decision, unless otherwise impelled directed by some
sinister nature, makes it the constant object of his endeavours
to keep his decision in a state of conformity as close as
possible, to the decisions pronounced in the same ground, or in default
of identity compleat or the nearest to it that can be found, by
in anterior occasions, by other judges. Universally acknowledged A universal sense of utility
general utility, and persons creatures with personal conscience
in the production of this effect.

The more uniform universal the prevalence of this habitual conformity
throughout the body of the law - (the law rule of action
is in this case supposed to be in the state of jurisprudential law) -
the greater is the degree in which the symptoms of uncertainty (the hereditary
leprosy of this species of law) is mitigated find their mitigation.

But the advantage thus arising attached to uniformity and
consistency is attached to it no further than in no other condition than that of in so far
as the time of decision is subservient or at least not repugnant
to the dictates of original utility as applying to the special particular care
in question in each instance. For it is with good decisions and thence
with good rules as with bad, any one rule may become "the fruitful permit of a hundred more".

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Identifier: | JB/106/087/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-8
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	087	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34675
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