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1827. Novr. 3.
Law Amendment.

Ult
Ch. Procedure
§.1. Beginning

In the one case By the one operation<a/dd> the power of doing wrong <add>to a /number of the members of the is sold to gives [to all]
greater: by the other the a special power of doing wrong is sold for a price.

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those who depend The
practice must shall only elicited by
their the following
circumstances

To the class of the relatively opulent belongs of course every
person by whom a either for general purpose or
for defraying the expence of judicature a tax on the faculty of
complaint in a Judicatory or that of self defence is advocated. [+] [+] the men who by the
inability to pay for the
expence of complaint
or that of self defence
or suffering wrong for
want of, or by reason
of the price put upon
justice or suffering injustice
be in it is
not in human many nature<lb?>that by him the
of that price should be
called for or approved In the case
of the following are the causes to by which in one or more of them the
he takes will have been produced.

1 that, the vast magnitude
of the people are unable
to pay the price set upon
justice

1. It does not occur to him that any person paid to such
a degree as to be by the proposed means excluded from Judicature exposed to suffering in all shape
are in existence: and yet in this case under the existing system are the
vast majority of the people.

2 the multitude of
those who are in that
situation & the degree
to which they suffer
from it

2. what is the multitude is of those who then suffer under
what degree each in as to have a number of
of

3 the consequation
of oppression they labour
under it

3. Of the degree in which they by oppression they are exposed to
suffering is to have the contemplation one object a of satisfaction, and the contrivance
of it an object of endeavour, to avail himself upon
any occasion of the faculty of exercising oppression in the being
his intention and his being of the number of
a such conduct in particular forming part of his pleas for the general
conduct of his life: and for the purchase of this advantage they are
content to expose themselves to and eventually to saddle themselves with<lb?>the expence of litiscontestation each in is own instance, on whatever side of
the suit it may happen
to have to be placed. At
this price he purchases
a share in the exclusive/monopoly
share in the benefit <add>the benefit of what
goes by the name of justice
that is to say the service
rendered by the exercise
given to the power of the
Judge.</add>

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Answer. True society
subsists & oppression is not
universal, but what
is above is not the
less true

But (says somebody) what is above can not be true,
for if it were society could not subsist, or at any rate oppression
would be universal. But society does subsist, and oppression though
unquestionably more extensive than could be wished is still far short of
being universal.

Answer. True society does subsist and oppression is still short
of being universal. but what is above is not the less true.

The <gap/ Of the check in the disposition to do wrong the
depends on the immediate way not upon what would eventually and really
be the suffering endured by the wrongdoer, but upon what be
in contemplation of being a wrongdoer suppose that it would be: and
by the great of such the wrongdoer the probability of such salutary suffering is always <add>
overrated. The overvaluation has for its cause the overvaluation of the existing system
aptitude of the existing system as a whole with reference to the production of the good effects professed by it<lb?>to be

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Date_1	1827-11-03	Marginal Summary Numbering	24-26
Box	056	Main Headings	Law Amendment
Folio number	205	Info in main headings field	Law Amendment
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