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1827. Decr. 24
Law Amendment.
Propositions.
Beginning
Interest determines doctrine
☞. Lawyers doctrine as well as precedent, determined by the sinister Interest
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Sole cause of oppositeness
between ends of judicature
& ends of justice — Sinister
interest
Throughout the civilized world, sole cause of the applic
oppositeness [oppositeness of the ends of judicature to the ends of justice]
the opposite of the interest of judicial functionaries — official and
professional, to those same ends of justice.
That sinister interest alone: Evil in any degree that of
the : for if law will the law being throughout the expression, his
interest it is, that as to the whole of it execution and effect be
maximized. expence delay and vexation because of
which it be in any respect a gain minimized
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Doctrine as well as
practice determined
by that sinister
interest
Such being at all times and every where their
proceedings, such has been accordingly not all men nor every
where their discourse. part of the mind, its self-regarding interest and affection The view of the system in the
parts of it: at all times in all places to keep it effectually
concealed as possible has been the universal case
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In judicature as in
legislature every
thing done by this
interest
In judicature as in legislature and in any thing else, by
the universally and necessarily attendant interest has any thing
been done that has been done. Till With ended
and then only of late year, in no law book would you suppose
that in judicial business by this universal any thing had been done, or that in
so any such had place.
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Consequence a compleat
course of misrepresentation
& deceit
Consequence a compleat course and system of
misrepresentation: of the amount the deceptive and or the endeavour
at it that but to with deceivedness deceivedness in a proportion quantity
more or less considerable may throughout and all along have
been mixt. But in what proportion to delivery would in
any instance be a task as useless as impracticable. Not less useless
than impracticable.
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Enquiry succeeds enquiry
but eyes constantly shut
to the real source of the
evil
Enquiry succeeds enquiry: but against the sole and
cause of whatever a of that which is the professed object of
search, eyes constantly shut: a resolution late, and that a
perpetual one never to find it; assigned cause — this, that, or
that other — everyone one but the true one. Accordingly as render
proper remedy this or that or that other, every remedy but the true one.
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J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL 1827 |
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Jonathan Blenman |
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