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1821 Decr 15

Codification Proposal

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Append

Lawyers interest

Judges [...?]

In the plan of a Judicial Establishment, drawn up by the author of these pages for France about the year 1790, to much [?] provision for exuberance in the demands for judication power was given to every Judge to appoint Deputies in any number on his own responsibility and without pecuniary [...?] at the expence of the public of his own choice. After a certain time, the choice of the Minister of Justice might be confined to such as had a certain length of experience in the above described situation of Judge Deputy. In the mean time, that is to say between the day on which the body of law comes to be in force and the day on which a sufficient number of men endowed with a sufficient stock of appropriate aptitude by exercise in [...?...?] of justice [...?...?] had /shall have/ been provided, it would be necessary to have the [...?] entirely or nearly open: it would be for consideration whether during this period any man who had practised as an Advocate /by whom in the character of Advocate his mind had been prostituted/ should or should not be capable of receiving the appointment /exercising the office/ of Judge.

It is only by the vitious state of the law that females whose contract for sexual intercourse is but for an /a single/ hour are rendered less virtuous than those whose contract is for life. by /in/ the interest©begotten tyranny of the stronger sex over the weaker will be found the interest©begotten prejudice by which while the reputation of one /the stronger/ party is destroyed by the short duration /short livedness [?]/ of the contract that of the other /weaker/ remains untouched. Not so in the case of the Advocate. It is by the atmosphere so saturated with sinister interest that he breathes and the discourse [?] which the habit of yielding to its suggestions has planted in his mind, it is by the perpetual habit of giving support to injustice, and employing mendacity in the number of his instruments © it is by this that the appropriate moral aptitude with reference to this function is [...?] © in his instance /case/ the highest possible degree of the opposite inaptitude.