JB/081/241/001

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1829 May 25
Petitions

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Supplement<note>
(4 <note>§.11 Elucidations
§ Reconciliation Commissioners

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1. Minimization of expence
& delay
in 1826 Causes saved
from Judge & Cos jaws
22,105

1 Benefit the first. Substitution of an inexpensive and
undilatory to an expensive and dilatory remedy. In all Denmark,
In the year 1826, the latest, of which in 1829 the accounts
had been published. In all Denmark, number of the
causes commenced in or say number of applications
made to the Commissioners 24,071: whereof, after the Opinion pronounced
by the Commissions, commenced no more than 1,966.
Saved then from the jaws of the fee-fed Judges and professional lawyers,
22,105.

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true that of these
2595 dropt
Cause of these being
dropt
1 Inability to afford
the expence of a suit
2 Opinion that the
chance of success not
worth the expence
3 Perception of
defendants insolvency

true it is, that of the 245,072 no more than 16,038
were settled to the mutual advantage of both parties: and that after
having been dismissed, no fewer than 7,555 were by the originally
named proposed demandant or say plaintiffs dropt without
and not carried before the ordinary Courts
dropt and Of these being thus dropt and yet without having
received compensation what may have been the cause or
causes. Answer of these the following it should seem are. 1. Inability<lb?>to afford the expence of a suit before those orders in those seats
of depredation. 2. Opinion derived from short From the opinion
delivered by the Commission a that the value of the
chance of obtaining the subject matter of the demand was not equitable
to the for the expence. 3. Perception in pursuance of the inability
of the proposed defendant to pay the amount of the demand,
especially after the drainage experienced suffered by him in the fee-fed
judicatory.

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This out of a population
of 2,000,000 salvation
afforded to 150,000.

So many Here then in that small domain
inhabitants not so may as 2,000,000 upwards of
22,000 pair of litigants rescued in the course of that one Year
from the carnivorous jaws: individuals so many, c considered
in one state: but considered as a family
state. if the number were no great than taking the number at no more than 5 in a family; this
will make 110,000. But instead of one litigant and two more
on each side, litigants, in suits in any number litigants there
may have been in any number, on one side or on both sides: if no
more than 8000 individual litigants, making 40,000 litigant families,
how will b 150,000, be the number of those to whom within
that short of time, salvation in that shape was extended.

Identifier: | JB/081/241/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1829-05-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-9
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	241	Info in main headings field	petition
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	b&m 1829
Marginals	george bentham	Paper Producer	arthur moore; richard doane
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1829
Notes public		ID Number	26028
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