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26 April 1807
Scotch Reform

It is however at the same time to the effect of the measure on in regard to suitors
and causes of this description that the controversy among of the
contending parties among the lawyers may be observed to be almost,
if not perhaps even altogether exclusively confined. The
malâ fide suitor, that latent though not dormant pursuer
the child of their creature of their industry their best customer and best friend firmest friend – is a
sort of a personage, whose existence they are not more forward to profit by, than they are backward to acknowledge.

Their calculations are confined to the case of the bonâ
fide suitor – that sincere and honest though sometimes sort of
though sometimes over-sanguine sort of client and suitor
the only sort of client or suitor that has ever presented
itself to their experience or observation the observation of either of the contending parties.
If any cause Data being wanting, no wonder that conjectures
– calculations they can not be called – should be irreconcilable.

If every cause But surely this want absence of all data
and consequently of all calculation should of itself be sufficient to put a negative upon the
measure. The mischief cost of it is certain: augmentation in a
visible and and incontrovertible way of the very mischief
to which it professes to apply a remedy: the mischief produced certain,
and of the mischief to shew the probability of any reduction
neither a calculation nor any thing approaching to any the
loosest sort of calculation made.

of any the smallest diminution not any thing like a certainty
is produced: unless it be in virtue of that too certain
increase of expence, at the interposed stage which no otherwise contributes to diminish
the number of appeals travelling up to the higher Court, then
in so far as it is productive of the worst effect of delay, denial
of justice. So many suitors as are already ruined & exhausted in the
Chamber of Review will not go on to the ruined in the House of Lords.
That some to some it will happen to expences be afforded by this, ruin or their exhausition,
may indeed with on but too good a ground be assumed as certain: but on the score
of this part of its effects no great quantity of benefit will presume be carried
to the account of the proposed measure.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings
Folio number	183	Info in main headings field	jb v fonblanque petition
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	a2 / f2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	50037
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