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<head>Judicial Estab.</head><lb/><head>Judges Numbers</head><lb/>With a multiplicity of Judges you must<lb/>either forego <del>the</del> <add>an indispensable</add> a necessary security for pro-<lb/>-bity <add>as well as caution</add> or pay for it in delay at an enormous<lb/><hi rend="underline">22<lb/>This delay will be<lb/>enormous unless the<lb/>practice of giving<lb/>reasons is <gap/> up<lb/>which is an indispen-<lb/>sible safeguard to<lb/>probity.</hi><lb/>rate. No man ought to be suffered to act in<lb/>the character of a Judge who does not make it <add>hold him-</add><lb/><add>-self bound</add> a rule to himself on all contested points to<lb/>ground his opinion upon reasons. <add>But for</add> Without this<lb/>assistance the <gap/> <add>tribunal</add> of public opinion is a<lb/>fault for want of evidence. Subjective to this<lb/>obligation improbity or indolence must either<lb/>give up their objects or see themselves betray'd<lb/>by absurdity too gross to pass for genuine.<hi rend="superscript">+</hi><lb/><note><hi rend="superscript">+</hi>What is more, <add>but for</add> without<lb/>this and, judicial decisi-<lb/>-ons, though <add>clear</add> free from<lb/>suspicion of improbity or<lb/>unskilfulness, can scarcely<lb/>keep up with the sense of se-<lb/>-curity. Unless the ground<lb/>of a decision be known,<lb/>especially when the rule<lb/>of conduct rests upon the<lb/>obscure footing of <del>common</del> <add>what is</add><lb/><del>law</del> called unwritten law<lb/>expectation finds no guide<lb/><del>and <add>the same</add> a question after being</del><lb/><del>may be receive opposite</del><lb/><del>decisions in a perpetual</del><lb/><del>alternative -</del><lb/>and men have no assu-<lb/>-rance but that the same<lb/>question may <add>at any time be</add> receiving<lb/>opposite decisions <del>in per-</del><lb/><del>-petual</del></note><lb/><lb/>But for the same reason you <add>impose</add> apply this<lb/>check and this spur to one, you <add>impose it upon</add> must apply<lb/>it to all. Here then <add><gap/></add> if you have twenty Judges<lb/>you have on every occasion twenty speeches of<lb/>which mention will commonly be of no use.<lb/>Time will certainly be saved, in as far as a<lb/>succeeding speaker may think fit to adopt<lb/>and refer to the argument of his <add>leader</add> predecessor:<lb/>but this sort of economy will find in <add>the selfishness of</add> vanity<lb/>as well as in the virtue of veracity two<lb/>powerful opponents. Distinctions will be taken,
<head>Judicial Estab.</head><lb/>
<head>Judges Numbers</head>
 
<p>With a multiplicity of Judges you must<lb/>either forego <del>the</del> <add>an indispensable</add> a necessary security for probity<lb/> <add>as well as caution</add> or pay for it in delay at an enormous<lb/><hi rend="underline">22<lb/>This delay will be<lb/>enormous unless the<lb/>practice of giving<lb/>reasons is <gap/> up<lb/>which is an indispensible<lb/> safeguard to<lb/>probity.</hi><lb/>rate. No man ought to be suffered to act in<lb/>the character of a Judge who does not make it <add>hold himself</add><lb/> a rule to himself on all contested points to<lb/>ground his opinion upon reasons. <add>But for</add> Without this<lb/>assistance the <gap/> <add>tribunal</add> of public opinion is a<lb/>fault for want of evidence. Subjective to this<lb/>obligation improbity or indolence must either<lb/>give up their objects or see themselves <sic>betray'd</sic><lb/>by absurdity too gross to pass for genuine.<hi rend="superscript">+</hi><lb/><note><hi rend="superscript">+</hi>What is more, <add>but for</add> without<lb/>this and, judicial decisions,<lb/> though <add>clear</add> free from<lb/>suspicion of improbity or<lb/>unskilfulness, can scarcely<lb/>keep up with the sense of se-<lb/>-curity. Unless the ground<lb/>of a decision be known,<lb/>especially when the rule<lb/>of conduct rests upon the<lb/>obscure footing of <del>common</del> <add>what is</add><lb/><del>law</del> called unwritten law<lb/>expectation finds no guide<lb/><del>and <add>the same</add> a question after being</del><lb/><del>may be receive opposite</del><lb/><del>decisions in a perpetual</del><lb/><del>alternative -</del><lb/>and men have no assurance<lb/> but that the same<lb/>question may <add>at any time be</add> receiving<lb/>opposite decisions <del>in perpetual</del><lb/></note><lb/><lb/>But for the same reason you <add>impose</add> apply this<lb/>check and this spur to one, you <add>impose it upon</add> must apply<lb/>it to all. Here then <add><gap/></add> if you have twenty Judges<lb/>you have on every occasion twenty speeches of<lb/>which mention will commonly be of no use.<lb/>Time will certainly be saved, in as far as a<lb/>succeeding speaker may think fit to adopt<lb/>and refer to the argument of his <add>leader</add> predecessor:<lb/>but this sort of economy will find in <add>the selfishness of</add> vanity<lb/>as well as in the virtue of veracity two<lb/>powerful opponents. Distinctions will be taken,</p>





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Judicial Estab.
Judges Numbers

With a multiplicity of Judges you must
either forego the an indispensable a necessary security for probity
as well as caution or pay for it in delay at an enormous
22
This delay will be
enormous unless the
practice of giving
reasons is up
which is an indispensible
safeguard to
probity.

rate. No man ought to be suffered to act in
the character of a Judge who does not make it hold himself
a rule to himself on all contested points to
ground his opinion upon reasons. But for Without this
assistance the tribunal of public opinion is a
fault for want of evidence. Subjective to this
obligation improbity or indolence must either
give up their objects or see themselves betray'd
by absurdity too gross to pass for genuine.+
+What is more, but for without
this and, judicial decisions,
though clear free from
suspicion of improbity or
unskilfulness, can scarcely
keep up with the sense of se-
-curity. Unless the ground
of a decision be known,
especially when the rule
of conduct rests upon the
obscure footing of common what is
law called unwritten law
expectation finds no guide
and the same a question after being
may be receive opposite
decisions in a perpetual
alternative -
and men have no assurance
but that the same
question may at any time be receiving
opposite decisions in perpetual


But for the same reason you impose apply this
check and this spur to one, you impose it upon must apply
it to all. Here then if you have twenty Judges
you have on every occasion twenty speeches of
which mention will commonly be of no use.
Time will certainly be saved, in as far as a
succeeding speaker may think fit to adopt
and refer to the argument of his leader predecessor:
but this sort of economy will find in the selfishness of vanity
as well as in the virtue of veracity two
powerful opponents. Distinctions will be taken,




Identifier: | JB/051/384/003"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 51.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

20-22

Box

051

Main Headings

evidence; procedure code

Folio number

384

Info in main headings field

judicial estab. judges number

Image

003

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f23 / f24 / f25 / f26

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

16549

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