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The consideration of delay affords an objection as inseperable
as the precipitation and the expence. Still not less more inseperable.
Bring a Jury upon the stage, to all
speedy Justice. You could not manage it, even though
you even were to put yourself to the expense of a perpetual
club of Its Jurymen : one set never turning their backs
till another came to relieve them. For you would not
put one Jury to begin a cause and a different one to
finish it : and if you did not, you would never one
Jury could never know when they were to go off the stage, nor
another when they were to come on. Him causes
out of twelve shall take but ten minutes a piece : & just so
long as is necessary for a man to look at a stack of
hand hand or an of exchange endoresement and say whether it is his writing : but two
others shall take ten hours, and the third ten days.
Other causes shall require many appearances, with
long intervals between them : which one diad or is
looted hunting out,, the contruction of another arguindg, and
different witnesses brought from different parts of
the country to speak to different points. Thus they
must either be shut up in conclaves as before, or
they are no longer Juries.
A Jury might indeed be returned for each
cause, as in the present English mode by for a distant
day, and in the mean time evidence of all sorts made got
ready, somewhat after the answer of with in the present English mode practice: : but than the
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jeremy bentham |
[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]] |
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