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Tit XII 3
Judicial Estab.
Advocates
26
Pensioned Coun-
-sellors not to take
fees
These The Counsellor of Counsellors of Assistance must not be trusted
with the right of lending their assistance to solvent
Clients: if they he did the insolvent ones would stand but
a poor chance. Those for whom his assistance was
purchased by the public would get as little of it
as he could contrive to put them off with. Justice
would be delayed. Causes of poor and rich, but especially those
of the poor would be put off from time to time because the advo-
-cate was not ready. And why not ready? Because the time+
+he is paid for
to insolvent Clients is
sold to solvent ones.

Before the Court of immediate jurisdiction the
assistance of a pensioned Counsellor would be applied
in such causes only as by their difficulty showed
themselves to have a claim to it: the nature ground
having first been broken as it was and a view
cleared through it, by the Judge. Such a point
he will say requires particular investigation: or
such a or such a witness a particularly close and
suspicious examination; do you, naming the Pur-
-suer General attend to the matter on behalf of the
Plaintiff: or do you d naming the Defender
General take it up for the Defendant, according
as it is the one or the other that to whom the
helpassistance appears to be necessary. The party of
course, if it was in his breast that the action of his standing
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26 (a)
(a) In England the Crown has no ground to complain
of any want of attention zeal on the part of its advocates: but
creates a demand
calls for the as-
sistance of of a servant
of the public in that
character the judicial
establishment would be little
less expensive than the military.
then they are paid in the same manner as the ad-
-vocates of other Clients. There is not a more gene-
-rous Client any where than the Sollicitor of the Trea-
sury. If the advocates of the Crown were employed in all the
cases where the want of interest on the part of individuals to pro-
-secute

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::[21-25 deleted] 26-27, 26a]]
Box	051	Main Headings	evidence; procedure code
Folio number	404	Info in main headings field	judicial estab.
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f7 / / / f10
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
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