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HIGH-WAY TURNP ACT Double Costs PROCEDURE
At the time I wrote this I know not (for who
could have imagined) that according in the language of the Law or rather
of as daring abuse which has eaten out the
hear of Law, double means only, half as much again
treble, half & a quarter as much again, & so on
Thus to use the illustration of the of an ingenious title Pract. + <note> + Dialogue on the Game Laws <add> Printed for Weltive - 1771.</add>/note> which first put me on the enquiry, rr the Masters, Pronotaries & other Officers who tax costs, allow, when the single costs amount to £100 for double only £150 for double for treble, only £175. I have been assured by Practitioners that nominal costs thus of good trebled, frequently come short of those actually incurred. I see no reason to dount the rectitude of this whereas there were who first devised what intentions: they thought to do an act of mercy in softening a vigerous provision.
The Laws & Customs of Little do The Powers who give Laws unto this
this realm little concern
that while and the exercise of this they are occupied <add> occupying the very clues as they think </add> that most exalted
section of humanity <add> privilege there sits that scribbler
at his desk who shall turn all what they have written
into Waste-paper.
Buen would have called, this construction
A few examples of this flagrancy are would be sufficient <lb> to destroy all confidence in the Law from among
Weak reasons! who knows not, that better it was the arm of Law should with ten -fold severity, then be loosed by their unhallowed hands the people - Eyes are not to be trusted: Common
Sense is a deceiver: the most chancentery knowledge
of the plainest & most incontestible principles of Arithmetic
is an incumbance
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I must own it would be a spectacle A spectacle it would be to me, I must acknowledge not unpleasing
because I think it would be an useful one, to see some
of these [Gentle]men who are wiser than the Laws
[brought] on their knees before an insulted Legislation
to own their folly - What is here complain'd of has no
application to these Gentlemen, unles they are the first Authors who one new
profession of occupy these departments - Custom with the of their is to
them a sole & warrantable guide: & this custom
is inveterate.
Whoever from the knowedge of <add> knowing of ... this deficiency the inadequacy
of the recompence desists from a prosecution, is
an evidence of the a mischief done to the suffer'd by Public.
Whoever engages in one from not knowing if it engages
in one, is an individual injured abused.
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jeremy bentham |
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caroline vernon |
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