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6 March 1807

Here my Lord, is a field – another noble field for these
into to exercise themselves in whose right the distinction between right
and wrong has no existence. Those rules all repugnant
to each other and all right: or if not all equally right
all equally fit to be upholden and preserved.

In Scotland it is fit that upon distributing so much
money among many the lawyer, debtor against whom judgment has
been given should for a certain greater or less number of years
be allowed to cheat their creditors.

In Ireland, this is not fit – on any terms.

In England it is fit, or not according to circumstances.
It is fit, unless the creditor will distribute a further sum of
money among the lawyers.
It is not fit may not be fit, if the creditor is at once
able and willing to administer to law learning this its
additional reward.

In all this seem, will any matter of regret present itself be discovered?
– O yes: – that his Majesty has not more kingdoms, with
more inconsistencies, and more injustices: that the state of things profligacy has
no deeper sink affords no fouler deeper pit of prostitution, by which sordid low ambition in high stations
earn the rewards that are as some fear it – may prove by still more conspicuous demonstrations that its
pursuance that the distinction per fus et nefus is a distinction
without a difference that fus and nefus are objects between
which, by hands cloathed with power no distinction ought ever to be made.

Identifier: | JB/106/226/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-06	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	226	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	34814
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