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7 May 1807

Maintenance of legislative authority of Parliamt & do of uniformity
the only grounds of defence for the utility of Lords judicature.
As to prevention of misdecision under jurisprudential law, Lords
less competent than Lawyer Judges.

At length, causes in some respects similar to those
which have concurred in taking out of the King's hands
the immediate exercise of these two branches of supreme judicial power, at
any rate causes upon the whole still more irresistible
have produced the effect of actually taking out of the
hands of the House of Lords the immediate exercise of a considerable portion of
their more exhaustive branch of superordinate judicial power.

And now in the character of a source of
experience, and if a precedent comes the accidental
case of the anomaly abovementioned.

Of the exercise of the branch of judicial authority possessed
and exercised in an immediate way by the House of Lords, no complaint has
seems ever to have been made: for by it no inconvenience
seems ever to have been experience.

On From the contrary from the non-exercise of it great inconveniences
have has been sustained: great and just complaints
made.

In By the precedent furnished by the ephemeral Courts of
supreme judicature an indication example has been shewn of that
mode of exercising judicature which is next in power and efficacy to
immediate.

Here then we have a pattern, the copying of which with
such slight indications as the obvious differences in the nature of the
two authorities indicate point out, presents the not only as will be
seen the most eligible in point of abstract utility the most eligible,
but the most strictly and clearly constitutional of any that the nature
of the case change admitts of.

Identifier: | JB/106/169/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-05-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	26-30
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	169	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e9
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	34757
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