JB/081/046/001

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1828. Decr. 18.
Petition for Justice
1. Case
IV. Mendacity
III practised.

or 1.
III. Mendacity practised –
by Judges – not as above
allowed and compelled
in others.

or 2. Immorality
Cases to a small extent
excepted, lying
appellation given to wilful
falshood. Even
where beneficent practised,
it can not be
without risk of character.

or 3. Immorality
Object of lying, production
of deception.

or 4. Immorality
Of maleficence in all
shapes deception is an
instrument: undue
remuneration and coercion
the two others.

or 5. Immorality
Justification on extenuation,
none.
Frequency, exceeding
every thing exemplified
by the worst set
of Judges, as even of
malefactors.

or 6. Immorality
To minimize this
practice of this vice
the aim of all moralists.

or 7. Immorality
Justification an excuse,
its lies upon the
accused to prove.

or 8. Immorality
But we shall prove
the non existence of
both.

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or 9. Originally none.
Note that at the early
period in question, this
vice was probably
not practised. Why?
because there was no
need of it. Lying is the
vice of weakness.
When power adequate
to the evil purpose has
place, lying is useless.

or 10. Immorality Now.
It being now established,
no member of the
existing brotherhood is
condemnable for it,
less now that it is exposed,
he gives his support to it.

or 11. Mischief
Mischievousness of
the practice unbounded.

or 12. Mischief Civil
Applied to Civil cases,
it enables Judges to
divest any men of
his property, destroying
or transferring it
according to it's nature.

or 12. Mischief Penal.
Applied to penal cases,
it enables Judges to punish
the innocent
or give impunity to
the guilty at pleasure.

or 14. Mischief Absolutism
In Judge's hands, this
unlimited power of
fiction gives absolute
and unlimited rule.

or 15. Mischief Absolutism
Scarce any corner in
the field of law over
which the power does
not extend.

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or 16. Uses Judge Lauded
Avowed maxim of
Judge & Co. Fictio
juris lædit neminem.

or 17. Common Law all fiction
Judge made law
one continued fiction,
giving unlimited
power of disposal
of property, destruction
of life, infliction of punishment,
and conferment
of impunity.

or 18. Mischief
Fiction used to find
an innocent man
guilty – example altering
the meaning
of the word malice
in the case of homicide.

or 19. Mischief
Enumeration and
classification of the
cases where this power
of maleficence
is exercised would be
on the present occasion
an impossible task.

or 20. Use to Judge
Fees and case the
universal object and
motive.

or 21. Use to Judge
If in any instance
good to the public has
been the result of
this vice still it
was not part of the
object.

Identifier: | JB/081/046/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1828-12-18	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 1 - or 21
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	046	Info in main headings field	petition for justice
Image	001	Titles
Category	marginal summary sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25833
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