JB/058/347/001

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3 March 1804
Evidence

Sooner or later – either in the shape of a Case for an Opinion
or in the shape of a Case f Brief, containing Instructions for the Trial
the statement goes passes from the Attorney to the a Counsel the sort of lawyer
called an Attorney to another sort of Lawyer called a Counsel: and
the in to for the encouragement of falshood mendacity this the assistance of this
sort of lawyer is secured, by an interest which if by it be not
of exactly the same shape as the preceding, is at any rate fully adequate
to the production of the effect. At this stage, happily most commodiously for this branch
of the profession, every idea of responsibility in respect of the truth
of the statement, is compleatly vanished. The truth of the statement
is in this quarter to be taken for granted: it would be officious, impertinent,
troublesome to both parties, unusual, repulsive, invidious, repulsive, and thence even disreputable
to doubt of it. It would require a degree of time and attention, which
in the habitual course of practice no Counsel in considerable business has it in his power, had he it
ever so much in his inclination, in general to bestow. In the estimation
and goodwill of his Clients of both classes, Attorney and party, the Counsel rises in
proportion to the degree of confidence with which he adopts and insists on the truth those statements
in which on one side or the other, not to speak of both, there is almost
aways more or less of falsity and of such falsity as any man in
his place might see through discover, if his it were his wish to do: a
falsity, of which in a general point of view he may therefore be pronounced
conscious. In the estimation of those in whom his emoluments and prospects
depend he will rise in proportion raise himself then to the zeal with which he exerts
himself to gain evidence for the falshood those falshoods and by such zeal in
there is no one in whose estimation he will lower himself.

Identifier: | JB/058/347/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1804-03-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-8
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	347	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	19016
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