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9 Novr 1810
Defence
Like almost every other branch of the rule of action in this country
the law relative to prizes has need to receive certainty
from the authority authoritative and all-comprehensive code. By the influence of lawyers and their confederates in sinister interest Like almost every other branch
of the rule of action is is kept in a state of uncertainty
by the influence of lawyers and their confederates in sinister
interest for the sake of the advantages in the shape of money
power and reputation of which that uncertainty is the
source. Title in these matters is left or placed on
the ground of conjectural rules notions, of which the tenor is nowhere has no
existence anywhere, and of which the purport is an object of search
among the a matter left to be deduced in the way of
inference from the incorrect and incompleat memorials
of historical facts: from the practise real or supposed,
of sovereigns and their military servants in this or that remote and
barbarous ages age times.
Like every other branch of the rule of action it
is made to derive derives voluminousness and uncertainty from a set of
with distinctions and concerts, in which the starting of the
good of the community at large has never been so much as looked
to, no, not so much as in form and pretence.
Identifier: | JB/547/041/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 547.
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Jeremy Bentham |
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