THE

WORKS

OF

JEREMY BENTHAM,

PUBLISHED UNDER THE SUPERINTENDENCE OF
HIS EXECUTOR,

JOHN BOWRING.

VOLUME V.

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM TAIT, 107, PRINCE'S STREET;

SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, & CO., LONDON.

MDCCCXLIII.

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3574

1574 .B31 1843

EDINBURGH:

Printed by WILLIAM TAIT, Prince's Street.

SCOTCH REFORM; Considered with reference to the Plan proposed in the late Parliament, for the Regulation of the Courts and the Administration of Justice in Scotland: with Illustrations from English Non-Reform in the course of which, divers Imperfections, Abuses, and Corruptions, in the Administration of Justice, with their Causes, are now, for the first time, brought to light. In a series of Letters addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Grenville, &c. &c. &c. With Tables, in which the principal causes of Factitious Complication, Delay, Vexation, and Expense, are distinguished from such as are Natural and Unavoidable,

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SUMMARY VIEW OF THE PLAN OF A JUDICATORY, UNDER THE NAME
OF THE COURT OF LORDS' DELEGATES, Proposed for the Exercise of those
Judicial Functions, the adequate Discharge of which by the whole House has, for
these six or seven years, been rendered confessedly impracticable, by want of time,

THE ELEMENTS OF THE ART OF PACKING, as applied to Special Juries, particularly in cases of Libel Law,

"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. (Predetached from an Introduction to the "Rationale of Evidence,"”)

TRUTH VERSUS ASHHURST; or, Law as it is, contrasted with what it is said

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THE KING AGAINST EDMONDS AND OTHERS: set down for trial, at War-
wick, on the 29th of March, 1820. Brief Remarks, tending to show the Untenabi-
lity of this Indictment, .

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THE KING AGAINST SIR CHARLES WOLSELEY, Baronet, and JOSEPH
HARRISON, Schoolmaster, set down for trial, at Chester, on the 4th of April, 1820.
Brief Remarks, tending to show the Untenability of this Indictment,

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OFFICIAL APTITUDE MAXIMIZED; EXPENSE MINIMIZED: as shown in the several papers comprised in this volume,

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A COMMENTARY ON MR HUMPHREYS' REAL PROPERTY CODE; Being
a Review of " Observations on the actual State of the English Law of Real Property,
with the Outline of a Code. By James Humphreys, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister." 387