JB/058/434/001

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July 1805
Evidence

§. Recapitulation – General depravity of English Law – its causes.

1. That under the technical system, if prudence is administered in
England that scarce an individual instance can be found, in
which right, violated and acknowledged right receives an effectual
remedy.

2. That except what is created by a decision of punishment
to be inflicted on attached to some of the grosser crimes, a prodigious majority
of the people, have been put and for ever stand out of the protection
of the law.

3. That every man who has a in England there are many thousands
and some myriads of persons each of whom has it every at any time
in his power compleatly at his power, at an instance to inflict absolute ruin in any man to in a
certain degree inferior in opulence to himself: and that the persons
thus put in subjection to the ignominy of others, amount to many
millions, and compose constitute the great majority say nine tenths
or 19 twentieths, of the whole body of the people.

4. That neither in the description of offences, nor in the appor allotment
of punishments in respect of quantity or quality, has any plan
or any principle or set of principles, good or bad, been ever pursued:
that taken in its totality the penal system is accordingly such as might be
expected from to the murderer most unfeeling inhumanity, and the grossest negligence
and that what little number of acuteness acumen are discoverable have been
more efficaciously and as well as zealously employed in promoting favouring the escape
of the guilty, than in providing for the safety of the innocent.

5. That in the distribution of rights as effected by the non-penal
branch of substantive law, and enforced or pretended to be
enforced by the non-penal branch of the system of procedure, every part of the
rule of action teams with irrationality and uncertainty: and that
the whole is such as might be expected found and would naturally be produced in
consequence of a plan gradually formed by men of law without any other view than
the common benefit of their profession, and without the smallest regard except
in which shew, for the welfare of mankind at large.

Identifier: | JB/058/434/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-07	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	434	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles	recapitulation - general depravity of english law - its causes
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19103
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