Note 477 — Chapter XXII · THE LAW OF PROCEDURE.
Reading edition
See Bentham, Works, VII. pp. 445–463, and Dumont, Treatise on Judicial Evidence, Book VII. ch. 11: “If all the criminals of every class had assembled, and framed a system after their own wishes, is not this rule the very first which they would have established for their security?... One could be tempted to believe that those notions had been taken from the laws of honour which regulate private combats.”