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10 March 1807

In the Spiritual Courts and in the Admiralty Courts
any more than in the Equity Courts, is any such separation
made between the question of law and the question of fact: nor
any use made of the Jury judicature trial.

But by means of the sort of correspondence which
it is they are in the habit of keeping up with the Common Law Courts
Equity Courts does occasionally give the suitor the benefit of the
separation, with the by the congenial benefit of Jury judicature.

Neither do the Spiritual Courts, nor the Admiralty
Courts keep up any such correspondence.

If such separate the sort of decomposition here
in question, and with it the use of the Jury box, in
the character of an appropriate instrument for operating it be in Common
Law causes always and in Equity causes not ever and more unfrequently
conducive to the ends of justice, why not in Spiritual
causes and in Admiralty causes?

A question surely not inapposite. But a
supposition tacitly involved in it is that in each of those Courts the system of
procedure was in its origin regulated by a correct and
comprehensive view conception of as well as an honest regard to
the ends of justice, instead of being a blindman's buff
scramble for power and profit, carried on blindfold in the dark
ages. Those ages when wisdom conveyed to them by instruction,
without the trouble of experience, is so often reclaimed as the
fit model and standard of instruction for each recessive and
more and more experienced age.⊞ ⊞ Wisdom of ages! Wisdom of ages! – cries every lawyer, and mercenary placeman, who has an abuse to defend, and effrontery to defend it.

Identifier: | JB/106/104/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	38-41
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	104	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c19 / e19
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34692
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