JB/091/019/001

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3 March 1804
Evidence Scotch Reform

Lawyers advisors. Causes – 1. that by reason of Interest. 2. Understanding.

It would be an absurdity – and an absurdity that any man of
common sense understanding ought to be ashamed of – to suppose that in the manufacture
of law the manufacturers had the interest of their customers any
more at heart in view, than in the manufacture of gunpowder or broadcloths. That in on
any such consideration as that consideration of the interest of the customer the sollicitude for
the goodness of the commodity would be greater in the former instance
than the latter: or that in the one case any more than the other any
advantage that presented itself as capable of being taken without prejudice with safety
would be foregone. That justice is in a certain degree
the result in the one case – direct justice, that in a certain degree of
vexation, expence and delay, that is, in a word of collateral injustice is no more a proof of its having been in any
degree the object than of the English lawyer of any class or denomination
Attorney, Clerical Reader, Advocate or Judge – than that the goodness
of English broadcloth is a proof that the of the
manufacture in the hearts of the manufacturers has been not the emolument profit of trade
of the manufacture, but the health and comfort of the wearer. That
in the case of law every profit advantage that would be taken has been taken
of the ignorance and helplessness of the suitor should no more be a matter of suspicion
than that half-filled barrels of gunpowder should be t have been at
over turn sold as long as they could be sold by the manufacturers for whole
ones, when they had to do with Negroes.

That every imposition that promised to promote the interest of
the manufacturer, how great soever the prejudice to the customer would be
practised, is not only what we may be spared must from by the universal
and unchangeable constitution of man's nature, must be the case, but
what in the particular instance case of the particular manufacture in question
we are assured by all history, has actually been the case, as well
here as every where.

Identifier: | JB/091/019/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1804-03-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	019	Info in main headings field	evidence scotch reform
Image	001	Titles	lawyers adverse / causes / by reason of 1. interest 2. understanding
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	29015
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