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9 March 1807

In the penning of real law, the words study of the real
legislator naturally is as it ought to be, so to choose his
words that the questions of law arising out of them shall be
as few as possible. It is for this purpose that except for
the purpose of abbreviation, as above mentioned, he will never
lose sight of his congenial objects endeavours – on every occasion to
employ such words as are in most common use with the people
whose fate they dispose of, and never to employ them in use them as affix to them any
other way than its that in which the people understand and
use them.

Correspondent to this care study on the part of the real legislator
though by the rule of contraries, has been in his character of
pseudo-legislator, the study of the English Judge. Magnifying
the Jury brand in words outward , undermining it in practice, denying
in the bulk of uninterrupted experience the right of Juries to decide
the question of law, to himself the exclusive
cognizance of all questions of law – of all questions grounded
in words of law, he takes for not a word of law, a source
of question of law, which words of all sorts as many as
the language furnishes. Words of his own making answer his made by the partnership, and in
purpose well: words case nowhere but in the partnership answer
this his purpose well: words in common use and in the most common
use answer it still better. Law jargon produces manifest
obscurity serves as a bugbear, and forces men for advan into the arms of the
partnership for advice by the tor of falling under the task of the law
and by the sense of dependence produced by conscious ignorance.
Ordinary language, prisoned infected by passing through legal hands, answers
the better purpose of a snare, and thus inveigles them into transgression,
that vast their the partnership may extract its profit.

Identifier: | JB/106/115/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 106.
Date_1	1807-03-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	13-14
Box	106	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	115	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c11 / e6
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	34703
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