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22 April 1805 Evidence Securities
22 April 1805

Evidence

Securities

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2. Objects pursued.

what were they? - The were such as while they afforded as much trouble as the most profitable ones would have afforded less /a reduced stream[?] of/ profit or none at all. In this way then by encreasing ad libitum and without much need of thought the quantum of profit upon each suit, the aggregate of the three conflicting ends was as effectively promoted as it could be: the maximum of profit was obtained /purchased/ - the minimum of labour was expended.
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    Description: April 1805

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    ''.3. Objects ulterior

    The quantity of lawyers profit extractable out of the aggregate of suits is encreasible in /may be encreased in either of/ two ways - by encreasing the number of suits in which the services of the man of law in his several forms must /require/ to be purchased, or by encreasing the number of instances in which it requires to be purchased on the occasion of each suit. In both ways it receives a proportionate encrease from the non-notoriety /unnotoriety/ /unscrutableness/ - the uncertainty - of the law. The greater the number of suits in existence, the greater the demand for his assistance /exertions/: the greater the number of suits in contemplation, his disposition of the law in relation to them presenting itself as indeterminate the greater the demand for his advice.
  • Title: [10 April 1805 Evidence Securities]
    Description: 10 April 1805

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    ''.2 Ruling Interests

    Here as elsewhere, judging from the known /predominant/ principles of human nature, to predict /for predicting/ what the wish would be, the workman having full powers, or being left to themselves nothing more was /would have been/ necessary, than to observe /consider/ what course, in every part of the business would be most for /favourable to/ their interest, [...?] productive in the greatest degree of their own personal, or (what in this case comes to the same thing) professional and official, profit and /or/ advantage. The state of things /of the results/ by which that advantage /object/ is promoted in the highest degree the description will be very simple

    1. That the aggregate mass of profit (Lawyer's profit) extracted from the aggregate mass of suits, carried on within each a given space of time, may be as great as possible.

    2. That accordingly the greatest possible quantity of profit be extracted. from each suit.

    3. That, of suits capable of being made to yield profit, the number be made as great as possible.

    4. That of suits not capable of being made to yield profit the number be made as small as possible: sheer labour, labour without profit, being the only result afforded to the lawyer by suits thus circumstanced.
  • Title: [21 April 1805 Evidence Securities]
    Description: 21 April 1805

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    ''.2. Objects pursued

    In the objects or ends pointed at by the interests abovementioned some sort of contrarity and competition may already have been observed: to encrease suits and not to encrease them, to encrease labour and not to encrease it: to extract the maximum of their advantage objects somewhat differently [...?] must therefore have been aimed at, means of different description and even opposite tendency as among the legitimate +, so among these illegitimate occasionally employed: each of the interests, each object /interest, each object/ must occasionally have been made to give way, and in some sort sacrificed, to the other. /another/.

    1. One interest said - make as many suits as possible.

    2. Another interest said - make the profit upon each suit as great as possible.

    3. A third said - make the trouble to yourselves from all suits taken together as little /light/ as possible.

    Here was a sort of contarity /To a certain degree these interests clashed:/: by the same means /arrangement/ by which one of them was promoted, another was counteracted. The more the profit upon each was augmented, the more the number of them was diminished: for the profit to the man of law being unavoidably attended with expence as well as vexation to a much greater amount to the individual would in many instances by utter inability in many more by dint of [...?] prevent them either from entering into or from continuing in the situation of a suitor - would in other words diminish the number of suits - would strike a number of hypothetical suits out of the list of actual ones - But the suits thus struck out of the list what

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    Conflict.