JB/057/109/001

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7 August 1805

Evidence Procedure

Procedure Removal
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There is yet another cause which contributes to render the
metropolis of every country the seat of the best and finest judicature,
and that is — disconnection — comparative dis exemption
from the influence of personal partialities and enmities and
connections in the way of interest. The more numerous larger the circle of the whole
population, the less will be the ratio of the circle smaller/interior circle containing the
personal connections of the Judge to that greater and continuing exterior circle.

In this same point of view, the mode of living degree of publicity in life in use
in the society of at large and in particular especially in that particular
society of which the Judge in question is a member, will have
no inconsiderable influence.

Both these circumstances may be set down as having
wi contributed in no inconsiderable degree to that sort of purity (as
against all which for a long time has formed so conspicuous
[and indubitable] a feature in the character of English Judges.
London, the seat of the Great Courts of Judicature, is the most
populous town in Europe. Paris has is not in this respect
far behind it. But ] Moreover in the population of London , the circles
high enough to include the connections of a Judge are so numerous,
numerous, at the same time that the number of the higher class/the Judges belonging of Judges is so small,
that the occasions on which either of the parties bears
any particular relation in the way of community of interest, of enmity, of
friendship, with any of the Judge by in whom the decision of the
cause depends are extremely few.

The Judge moreover, like any other man, will have
his family connections: but, the exclusion of the immediate precincts of his own part of his time which it is
possible for him to spend, pass in the way of ordinary intercourse, in
any of those circles in which it is possible for his affections to be
in any way engaged is extremely small. His time is almost
wholly engrossed by the unavoidable duties of his office: and if the small
time part of it which it is possible for him to devote to the purposes of relaxation
and social intercourse, little indeed can be spared, even were it wished to
be spared, to any other than the purely domestic circle, added to the professional
society composed of those who are too well acquainted
with the law to be frequently entangled in its snares.

Identifier: | JB/057/109/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 57.
Date_1	1805-08-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	057	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	109	Info in main headings field	procedure
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18439
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