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For the particular modification of improbity, called mendacity,
the objections lie stronger against the English judge
than against the English advocate — itself a stronger case
than that of the convicted perjurer. the Judge won't steal
your spoons; but he will beat the thief in lying. The special
pleaders from his first entrance into the profession, never knew
what it was to set his hand to a single paper without a lie
in it. The technical system is a hot-house of mendacity;
the advocate is picked not in due time from the bed of special
pleaders, or Chancery draughtsmen, and is trained up in this
store, — the judge is the advocate run to seed. It is true
of Exchequer, the same robes include two sorts

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The Judges are coiners; they are spurious usurping legislators,
making base law underground, as their brother
usurpers make base money, and like them, with one
everlasting lie, disowning their work. Nine out of ten
of the propositions that, as part of the common law, have
drawn their origin from learned bosoms, are absurd in
themselves, mischievous in their consequences. In the statutes
made by fits and starts for amendment of the law, is a
small but fertile department, where may be read the
wickedness of lawyers. It is a history that may match with
that of Cartouche, Jonathan Wild, Japhet Crook, and so forth,
except that it is without name. When the legislature was
obliged to interfere, the worst that could happen to injustice,
was the putting her into new clothes. —
Bentham Rationale of Evidence
4 V — P 475.423.—

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Folio number	328	Info in main headings field
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Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	2
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