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If it is to be heard, the language or (I will use a word less liable to ambiguity) the tongue must be understood:
if it is to be heard and read, the language
and the characters must be understood. Neither
language nor characters should be understood
with the good-will of the Professors.+ + Lawyers

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Any thing will serve a lawyer for an argument
when pleading for the abuses of his profession.
Translating Law proceedings from Latin into
English did mischief. Why? because more
words go to the same number of ideas in
English than in Latin [more therefore is paid
to the tax for words] therefore the Stamp- Duties
upon those proceedings have been encreased by it.

Either it is good fit that those Stamp-duties should be have been
thus encreased, or it is not: if good, there is nothing
in the argument: if not, there is a plain way to remedy
it: it is to make them lower. If the Legislature
think fit to make them lower, they know how
to do it I wish they did. would. I am satisfied that a Tax
upon Judicial proceedings (especially in its
present form) is [of all others] the very worst
way [that is] in use of raising money upon the
subject. Such The Author of the Commentaries
approv thinks those Stamp-duties ought not to have been
encreased. Such is his opinion: such at least
it is necessary for the present purpose should appear
to be his opinion. [Any man may
offer his opinion.] I think Mine is that they ought never
to have been laid on: but I would not have that
my opinion to should prevail against the opinion
of the Legislature.

It is remarkable The of
One thing in all this is singular. The Author for once in his
life, (who would have thought it?) suspects, (or
it is necessary that he should

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	143	Info in main headings field	promulg. com. law. language - characters
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
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