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§ 1.: Work on Libel Law commenced—Occasion of it.
§ 2.: That Work why postponed to this.
§ 1.: Checks are ever odious to all persons checked.
§ 2.: Judges’ Defences against Checks—Corruption and Deception.
§ 3.: Corruption—Modes of applying it.
§ 4.: Deception—Modes of applying it—Instruments for the application of it.
§ 1.: The System briefly stated.
§ 2.: The Corruption briefly indicated.
§ 3.: The System further developed.
§ 4.: The Corruption and Dependence developed.
§ 5.: Aggregate Mischief of the System.
§ 6.: Views of the Lawyers who penned the Acts.
§ 1.: The effect of Corruption, how secured by it.
§ 2.: Corruptors, regular or casual—both served by Unanimity.
§ 1.: Blind Confidence in Judges not warrantable.
§ 2.: Interests, to the action of which Judges are liable to be exposed.
3.: Interests, to the sinister action of which English Judges stand actually exposed.
§ 4.: Existing Popularity no sufficient Ground for Confidence.
§ 1.: Liberty of the Press—has it any and what Existence?
§ 2.: Improbity in Judges, and their high allies—its Hostility to the Press.
§ 3.: Incapacity in Judges, and their high allies—its Hostility to the Press.
§ 1.: Doctrines and Rules.
§ 2.—: 1. Rule concerning Disesteem.
§ 3.—: 2. Rule concerning Feelings.
§ 4.—: 3. Rule concerning Unfitness in high Situations.
§ 5.—: 4. Rule concerning Dislike.
§ 6.: Terror issuing from the Darkness of the Doctrines.
§ 1.: Obsequiousness found unavoidable by a veteran Advocate.
§ 2.: On the part of a trained Juryman, Unobsequiousness still more hopeless.
§ 1.: Star-Chamber preferable to a covertly-pensioned Jury.
§ 2.: A Jury-less Judge preferable to a covertly pensioned Jury.
§ 1.: Turner and Skinner, anno 1783-4.
§ 2.: Phillips and x. Anno 1807-8.
§ 1.: Substance of the Letter.
§ 2.: The Letter in its own words—with Observations.
§ 2.: The Letter in its own words. “TO SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.
§ 1.: Insufficiency of the Defences in any case.
§ 2.: Defence 1—Avoidance of Vexation
§ 3.: Defence 2—Benefit of Instruction.
§ 4.: Mischievous Doctrines involved in this Defence.
§ 5.: Acknowledged Nothingness of the Advantage.
§ 6.: Short Exposure of the supposed Advantage.
§ 7.: Mischievousness of the Doctrine further developed.
§ 8.: Lawful Improvement—Track it would have proceeded in.
§ 1.: Device 1—Leaving to Judges a covert ground for refusing to apply the act.
§ 2.: Device 2—Rendering it unadvisable for a Sheriff to resist the Packing.
§ 3.: Device 3.—Concealing the Power of Nomination given to the Master Packer.
§ 4.: Learned Advice given accordingly to Sheriff Phillips.
§ 5.: Special Jury System—just suspicion entertained of it.
§ 6.: Harmony between the Astutia of 1730, and do. of 1808.
“TO MR. SHERIFF PHILLIPS.
§ 1.: This Letter, why introduced here.
§ 2.: The Letter, with Annotations. TO SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.
§ 1.: The Maxims themselves.
§ 2.: Corroborations from Lord Eldon’s Scotch Reform.
§ 1.: The Transactions themselves.
§ 2.: Instruction gained—Definitions and Maxims.
CHAPTER I.: COMMONS’ DEBATE, 24th APRIL 1809. PACKING AND CUTTING.
§ 1.: Abuses touched upon—Packing and Cutting.
§ 2.: Packing.
§ 3.: Cutting.
§ 1.: Ground and Embroidery explained.
§ 2.: Double-fee Abuse, plain:—mere Waste.
§ 3.: Embroidery—Corruption of Jurors, Contempt of Parliament.
PART IV.—: REMEDIES PROPOSED.*
§ 1.: Introduction—Necessity of a Change in the System.
§ 2.: Interests to be provided for—Objects to be aimed at.
§ 3.: Arrangements proposed:—1. In Common Jury Causes, mix Gentlemen with Yeomen.
§ 4.: Arrangements continued—2. Special Juries, half-and-half.
§ 5.: Arrangements continued—3. Compensation-money to Jurymen.
§ 6.: Arrangements continued—4. Fund, on which the Compensation-money shall be charged.
§ 7.: Arrangements continued—5. Formation of the Qualified List—viz. in other counties, c. as well as Middlesex.
§ 8.: Arrangements continued—6. Corruption by Individuals how prevented—No Party should foreknow his Jurymen.
§ 9.: Unanimity increases the Aid afforded to Corruption by Foreknowledge.
§ 10.: Arrangements respecting Form: viz. the Form of the proposed New Law.
§ 1.: Unless the Authority of Parliament be vindicated, Package cannot be abolished.
§ 2.: Contempt put upon the Bill of Rights, by the Lord Chief Baron’s Package.
§ 3.: Recent Contempt of Howard’s Act by the Detention of Acquitted Prisoners.
§ 4.: Parliamentary Operations proposed.
§ 5.: Retrospective Censure, is it to be looked for?
§ 6.: No fresh Acts requiring Obedience to existing ones.
§ 7.: Prospect of Redress.
“SWEAR NOT AT ALL:” containing an EXPOSURE OF THE NEEDLESSNESS AND MISCHIEVOUSNESS, as well as ANTI-CHRISTIANITY of the CEREMONY OF AN OATH: a view of THE PARLIAMENTARY RECOGNITION OF ITS NEEDLESSNESS, IMPLIED IN THE PRACTICE OF BOTH HOUSES; and an INDICATION OF THE UNEXCEPTIONABLE SECURITIES, BY WHICH WHATSOEVER PRACTICAL GOOD PURPOSES THE CEREMONY HAS BEEN EMPLOYED TO SERVE, WOULD BE MORE EFFECTUALLY PROVIDED FOR. together with PROOF OF THE OPEN AND PERSEVERING CONTEMPT OF MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLE, PERPETUATED BY IT, AND RENDERED UNIVERSAL, in the TWO CHURCH-OF-ENGLAND UNIVERSITIES, more especially in THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. (Pre-detached from an Introduction to the “Rationale of Evidence.”)
Section 5.: Mischiefs—1. Contributing to the Mendacity-Licence granted by Judges.
Section 6.: Mischief 2—Weakening in various ways the Efficiency of the Laws.
Section 7.: Mischief 3—Bewildering and enslaving the Consciences of Jurymen.
Section 8.: Mischief 4—Giving aid and force to the Enterprises of Malefactors.
Section 9.: Mischief 5—Furnishing pretence for Misrule by Abuse of Prerogative.
Section 11.: Mischief 6—Corrupting the National Morals and Understanding—Oxford University Oaths.
Section 12.: Mischief 6 continued.—II. Cambridge Oaths.
I.: Among the Rulers of the University of Oxford, Perjury universal and constant, as declared in and by an Explanation, given by themselves, in their own Statutes—its Jesuitical style.
ΕΠΙΝΟΜΙΣ Seu Explanatio Juramenti quod de Observandis Statutis Universitatis a singulis præstari solet: quatenus, scilicet, seu quousque obligare jurantes censendum sit.
Intenditur igitur perjurio se obligare,
Appendix to the Laws, Or Explanation of the Oath, which concerning the Observance of the University Statutes is by each person wont to be taken: how far, to wit, or to what extent, it is to be regarded as obligatory on the swearers.
Accordingly, what is understood is—that those men bind themselves in perjury,
II.: The Manufacture of Perjury persevered in, and the produce repeatedly augmented,—with open eyes, and in spite of remonstrances.
III.: The principle of Infallibility adhered to and acted upon to the last.
IV.: Habitual Perjury of the University Magistracy—further Proof of its Wilfulness.
INTRODUCTION, WRITTEN AUGUST 1823.
Ashhurst.—I.: No man is so low as not to be within the law’s protection.
Ashhurst.—II.: The law of this country only lays such restraints on the actions of individuals as are necessary for the safety and good order of the community at large.
Ashhurst.—III.: Happily for us, we are not bound by any laws but such as are ordained by the virtual consent of the whole kingdom.
Ashhurst.—IV.: Happily for us, we are not bound by any laws but such as every man has the means of knowing.
A Card to John Reeves, Esq. Barrister at law, Chief-Justice of Upper Canada, Chairman of the Society calling itself “The Society for preserving Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers,” held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, in the Strand.
THE KING against EDMONDS AND OTHERS: SET DOWN FOR TRIAL, AT WARWICK, ON THE 29th OF MARCH 1820.
To the Jurymen of Warwickshire (perhaps also to those of Cheshire,) and such other persons whom it may concern.
BRIEF REMARKS, c.
THE KING v. WOLSELEY HARRISON.
PAPER I.—: PREFACE.
PAPER II.—: INTRODUCTORY VIEW, c.
TITLES OF THE SECTIONS.
DEFENCE OF ECONOMY AGAINST BURKE.
SECTION I.: BURKE’S OBJECTS IN HIS BILL AND SPEECH.
SECTION II.: METHOD HERE PURSUED.
SECTION III.: PROPOSITIONS DEDUCED FROM BURKE’S ECONOMY SPEECH.*
1.: Concerning Public Money—what the proper Uses of it. Propositions 1, 2, 3.
SECTION IV.: CONCERNING TITLE TO REWARD.
SECTION V.: CONCERNING VIRTUOUS AMBITION, GRATITUDE, AND PIETY. Propositions 5, 6, 7, 8.
SECTION VI.: CONCERNING PARTY-MEN AND THEIR PRINCIPLES. Propositions 9, 10.
SECTION VII.: CONCERNING MINISTERS AND THEIR DUTY TO THEMSELVES. Propositions 11, 12, 13, 14.
SECTION VIII.: CONCERNING GRATUITOUS SERVICE, AND THE PROFLIGACY INVOLVED IN IT. Propositions 15, 16.
SECTION IX.: A PROPHECY, AND BY BURKE—THE KING WILL SWALLOW UP THE WHOLE SUBSTANCE OF THE PEOPLE.
SECTION X.: GRATUITOUS SERVICE, BURKE’S OBJECTIONS TO IT REPUTED.—NECKER.—BURKE’S EAST-INDIA BILL.
SECTION XI.: BURKE’S OBJECTION TO THE APPLICATION OF THE PRINCIPLE OF COMPETITION TO THIS PURPOSE—ITS FRIVOLOUSNESS.
SECTION XII.: CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS.—BURKE, WHY THUS EXAMINED.
SECTION I.: INTRODUCTION.
SECTION II.: MR. ROSE’S PLEAS IN BAR TO ECONOMY.
Plea 1.—: Vastness of the Expenditure.
Plea 2.—: Need of Provision for Decayed Nobility, c.
Plea 3.—: Need of Subsistence for Official Persons.
Plea 4.—: Need of Money for making Fortunes for Official Persons and their Families.
Plea 5.—: Need of Money for Buying Men off from Professions.
SECTION VII.: DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE VALUE OF MONEY.
Plea 6.—: Need of Money as a Stimulus to Official Exertion.
Plea 7.—: Need of Money for the Support of Official Dignity.
Plea 8.—: Concerning the late Mr. Pitt’s Expenditure—the Impropriety of Economy, how far proved by it.
SECTION XI.: CONCERNING INFLUENCE.
SECTION XII.: CONCERNING PECUNIARY COMPETITION—AND THE USE MADE OF THE PRINCIPLE.
PAPER VII.: OBSERVATIONS ON MR. SECRETARY PEEL’S HOUSE OF COMMONS SPEECH, 21st MARCH 1825, INTRODUCING HIS POLICE MAGISTRATES’ SALARY RAISING BILL, (Date of Order for Printing, 24th March 1825.)
SPEECH of Mr. Secretary Peel, on introducing the Police Magistrates’ Salary Increase Bill, 21st March 1825. Extract reported in the Times and the Morning Chronicle, of the 22d:—
SECTION I.: FACTS SUSPECTED.* SUBJECTS OF INQUIRY FOR THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.
SECTION II.: UNDER LORD ELDON, EQUITY AN INSTRUMENT OF FRAUD AND EXTORTION. SAMPLES:—
SECTION III.: ANNO 1807.—ORDER BY CHANCELLOR AND MASTER OF THE ROLLS, AUGMENTING THE FEES OF OFFICES IN THE GIFT OF ONE OF THEM.
SECTION IV.: PROFIT TO SUBORDINATES WAS PROFIT TO SUPERIORS; SO, IN COURSE, TO SUCCESSORS.
SECTION V.: CONTRARY TO LAW WAS THE ORDER.
SECTION VI.: BY IT, INCREASE AND SANCTION WERE GIVEN TO EXTORTION.
SECTION VII.: SO, TO CORRUPTION.
SECTION VIII.: HOW LORD ELDON PRONOUNCED THE EXACTION CONTRARY TO LAW—ALL THE WHILE CONTINUING IT.
SECTION IX.: HOW THE CHANCELLOR HAD LAID THE GROUND FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL CORRUPTION OF HIMSELF AND THE OTHER CHIEFS.
SECTION X.: HOW THE DESIGN WAS STOPT SHORT BY A SOLICITOR, TILL SET A-GOING AGAIN, AS ABOVE.
SECTION XI.: HOW THE OTHER CHIEFS WERE CORRUPTED ACCORDINGLY.
SECTION XII.: HOW THE ILLEGALITY GOT WIND: AND HOW FELIX TREMBLED.
SECTION XIII.: HOW THE CHANCELLOR WENT TO PARLIAMENT, AND GOT THE CORRUPTION ESTABLISHED.
SECTION XIV.: HOW THE HEAD OF THE LAW, SEEING SWINDLING AT WORK, CONTINUED IT, AND TOOK HIS PROFIT OUT OF IT.
SECTION XV.: HOW KING GEORGE’S JUDGE’S IMPROVED UPON THE PRECEDENT SET BY KING CHARLES’S IN THE CASE OF SHIP-MONEY. See above, § 9.
SECTION XVI.: HOW TO BE CONSISTENT, AND COMPLETE THE APPLICATION OF THE SELF-SERVING PRINCIPLE.
SECTION XVII.: HOW LORD ELDON PLANNED AND ESTABLISHED, BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT, A JOINT-STOCK COMPANY, COMPOSED OF THE WESTMINSTERHALL CHIEFS, AND DISHONEST MEN OF ALL CLASSES.
SECTION XVIII.: HOW THE KING’S CHANCELLOR EXERCISED DISPENSING POWER.
SECTION XIX.: CHARACTER EVIDENCE.
§ 1.: Under Lord Eldon, Equity an Instrument of Fraud and Extortion.—Samples continued.
§ 2.: Lord Eldon Squeaking.
asterisksThe following Note was prefixed to the article by the Editor of the Westminster Review:—
Author’s Draught. (No Topics given.)
II.: Deed of Mortgage.1
I.: Deed of Sale. Allen to Butler, anno 1925.
Reviewer’s Draught,* (with Topics.)
II.: Deed of Mortgage.
Allen to Butler, anno 1927. Reviewer’s Draught (with Topics.)
III.: Marriage Settlement Deed, Allen with Campbell, anno 1929.
OUTLINE OF A PLAN OF A GENERAL REGISTER OF REAL PROPERTY: CONTAINED IN A Communication to the Commissioners appointed under Letters Patent, of date the 6th June 1828, to inquire into the Law of England respecting Real Property, and first printed in the Appendix to their Third Report, ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 24th May 1832.
JUSTICE AND CODIFICATION PETITIONS: BEING FORMS PROPOSED FOR SIGNATURE BY ALL PERSONS WHOSE DESIRE IT IS TO SEE JUSTICE NO LONGER SOLD, DELAYED, OR DENIED: AND TO OBTAIN A POSSIBILITY OF THAT KNOWLEDGE OF THE LAW, IN PROPORTION TO THE WANT OF WHICH THEY ARE SUBJECTED TO UNJUST PUNISHMENTS, AND DEPRIVED OF THE BENEFIT OF THEIR RIGHTS.
I.: Device the First—Parties excluded from judges’ presence.—Demandant not admitted to state his demand; nor defendant his defence: admitted then only, when and because they cannot be shut out: admitted, just as strangers are: admitted without the power of acting for themselves.
II.: Device the Second—Language rendered unintelligible.—It was by this device that, in the first instance, the exclusion was effected.
III.: Device the Third—Written Instruments, where worse than useless, necessitated.
IV.: Device the Fourth—Mendacity: licensed, rewarded, necessitated, and by Judge himself practised.
Now for Mendacity practised.—By mendacity is understood the quality exemplified by any discourses by which wilful falsehood is uttered: habit of mendacity, the habit of uttering such discourse.
V.: Device the Fifth—Oaths for the establishment of the Mendacity, necessitated.
VI.: Device the Sixth—Delay, in groundless and boundless lengths, established.
VII.: Device the Seventh—Precipitation Necessitated.
VIII.: Device the Eighth—Blind Fixation of Times for Judicial Operations.
IX.: Device the Ninth—Mechanical substituted to Mental Judicature.
X.: Device the Tenth—Mischievous Transference and Bandying of Suits.
XI.: Device the eleventh—Decision on grounds avowedly foreign to the Merits; or say, Decision otherwise than on the Merits; or, more shortly, Decision not on the Merits.
XII.: Device the Twelfth—Juries subdued and subjugated.
XIII.: Device the Thirteenth—Jurisdiction, where it should be entire, split and spliced.
XIV.: Result of the Fissure—Groundless Arrest for Debt.
11.—I.: Device the First—Exclusion of the Parties from the presence of the Judge.
16.—II.: Device the Second—Language unintelligibilized.
19.—III.: Device the Third—Written Pleadings worse than useless, necessitated.
27. IV.: Device the Fourth—Mendacity licensed, rewarded, compelled, and by Judge himself practised.
45.—V.: Device the Fifth—Oaths for the Establishment of the Mendacity, necessitated.
128.—VII.: Device the Seventh—Precipitation necessitated.
184.—IX.: Device the Ninth—Mechanical, substituted to Mental, Judicature.
193.—X.: Device the Tenth—Mischievous Transference and Bandying of Suits.
259.—XI.: Device the Eleventh—Decision on grounds avowedly foreign to the Merits.
260.—XII.: Device the Twelfth—Juries subdued and subjugated.
261.—XIII.: Device the Thirteenth—Jurisdiction split and spliced.
276.: For Device XIV.—Result of the fissure—Groundless Arrests for Debt.—See the Full-length Petition.
To the Honourable the House of Commons; the Petition of the Undersigned,
SECTION I.: CORRUPTION—ITS IMPUTABILITY TO ENGLISH JUDGES.
SECTION II.: OTHER SOURCES OF OPPOSITION TO LAW REFORM.
1.: Applying to Device III.—Written Pleadings worse than useless, necessitated.
2.: Applying to Device V.—Oaths, for the establishment of the Mendacity System, necessitated.
3.: Applying to Device XI.—Decisions on grounds avowedly foreign to the Merits—Exemplification of the Crime-licensing System.
4.: Applying to Device XIV.—Groundless Arrest for Debt.
5.: Applying to Device XIII.—Jurisdiction split and spliced: Abridged Petition, article 262.
6.: Applying to almost the whole constellation of Devices.
THE PETITION OF THE UNDERSIGNED,
BOA CONSTRICTOR, alias HELLUO CURIARUM.
SPEECH of Lord Chancellor Brougham, as printed in the Morning Chronicle of Friday, September 2d, 1831, in the Article headed Court of Chancery, on announcing his “resolved on” absorption of the Courts of the Vice-Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls into that of the Lord High Chancellor.
I.: BOA CONSTRICTOR, alias HELLUO CURIARUM: OBSERVATIONS ON THE “RESOLVED-ON” ABSORPTION OF THE VICE-CHANCELLOR’S COURT, AND THE MASTER OF THE ROLLS’ COURT, INTO THE LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR’S COURT.
II.: OBSERVATIONS ON THE BANKRUPTCY COURT BILL.
§ 4.: Judge and Co.—False Evidence rendered by them dispunishable, where profitable to themselves.—Mendacity licence.
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