ABSTRACT In 1929 Sir William Holdsworth argued that Jeremy Bentham wrote ‘the best criticism’ of Lord Mansfield’s attempts to ‘fuse’ law and equity that has ever been made. As the present article will show, Bentham was in fact in favour of a form of ‘fusion’ that consisted of the abolition of the procedural distinction between law and equity, the incorporation of the subject-matters ordinarily handled by equity courts into his Civil Code, and the inclusion of formal mechanisms to provide relief and to amend the law in his ideal constitution. In the immediate term, Bentham devised a series of ‘equity dispatch courts’ that would employ a summary method of procedure in order to clear the large backlog of Lord Eldon’s court of chancery. While he claimed that this project would be experimental and temporary, he often portrayed it as an avenue through which to instigate radical reform, and to eliminate entirely the need for separate systems of law and equity. However, it will be concluded that, with the exception of Henry Bickersteth, Bentham’s writings on equity gained little influence in the decades preceding the Supreme Court of Judicature Acts (1873–75), and achieved only a small circulation.

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Jeremy Bentham 和 Equity：大法官法庭、埃尔登勋爵和调度法庭计划

摘要 1929 年，威廉·霍尔兹沃思爵士争辩说，杰里米·边沁对曼斯菲尔德勋爵试图“融合”法律和公平的尝试提出了“最好的批评”。正如本文将表明的那样，边沁实际上赞成一种“融合”形式，包括废除法律与衡平法之间的程序区别，将衡平法法院通常处理的主题事项纳入他的《民法典》。 ，并在他的理想宪法中纳入了提供救济和修改法律的正式机制。在近期内，边沁设计了一系列“股权分派法院”，将采用简易程序方法来清理埃尔登勋爵大法官法院的大量积压案件。虽然他声称这个项目是实验性的和临时性的，他经常将其描述为一种途径，通过该途径可以发起激进的改革，并完全消除对单独的法律和公平制度的需要。但是，可以得出的结论是，除了亨利·比克斯泰斯 (Henry Bickersteth) 之外，边沁关于公平的著作在最高法院司法法案 (Supreme Court of Judicature Acts，1873-75) 之前的几十年中几乎没有影响，并且只获得了少量发行。