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1806
Scotch Reform

A preliminary point to be settled, and if settled
at all, necessarily in the first instance is – where
the interests two very distinguishable classes of persons
being concerned – viz. the lawyers and the suitors –
where this the case is such that they happen to class they clash to such a degree as to be
and are irreconcilable, which is to be preferred, which
sacrificed.

To some men the bare question may appear a
Salus populi suprema lex or that a that
will admitt one in a days of dispute? Exists there
that human being that will have the hardyhood to
strike out populi and put jurisconsultorim instead of
it – exists there the human being that will take upon
him openly to propose such an alienation in the character
of an amendment?

In words perhaps not, at any rate not in a
public assembly: not in any such assembly as that of
either House of Parliament. But proposed or not
to such a degree has the amendment, such as it is, been
acted upon, that should it be seen hopeless it can not
at any rate be deemed a needless undertaking task to guess
as well as can be guessed, what sort of support, in
the shape of argument, may be to be found for it.

Needless? in good truth my Lord, either I am much
mistaken, or it is with this amendment only, and not
other in its original state that the maxim has been taken
for the basis of the plan on the subject of which I
am venturing to trouble your Lordship with this commentary.

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Date_1	1806	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	037	Info in main headings field	scotch reform to ld grenville
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	29033
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