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13 June 1805 Evidence Introd
13 June 1805

Evidence

Introd

Ch. Procedure Technical

''.2. (Ends of the Technical)

3. Number of suits, quantum of profit from each operation and instrument, given as before; also number of operations and instruments together, the aggregate of profit will be as the length of each operation or instruments.

Third object - increasing the length of each such operation and of each such instrument

4. As often as any additional hand can be introduced into the business, to whom any operation can be /is/ given to perform which without him would not have been performed, or instrument made which without him would not have been made, an addition is made to the aggregate of operations and instruments.

Fourth object - increasing the number of different hands /hands/ having different employments, employed in the business of procedure.

Thus far, to avoid complication and embarrassment, a supposition has all along, though tacitly made, viz: that of the whole number of suits, each /from/ which, number and length of operations given, profit will be extractable, and to the same amount. But as in every community there will always be a considerable number of individuals, from whom, they /[...?]/ enjoying throughout the whole course of their lives little more or no more than a bare subsistence, no profit at all or none that would be worth earning at the price of the necessary labour, could by possibility be extracted, hence, from the number of suits which it is the interest of the man of law to see or even to take place, must be excepted and struck out the whole number and proportion of these non-profit-yielding, these unprofitable suits.

The interest of his fortune /His pecuniary interest/ calls upon him to secure up to a maximum the number of profit-yielding suits: the interest of his case calls upon him to carve down to a minimum the number of non-profit-yielding suits.

Fifth object - diminishing the number of non-profit-yielding suits.
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    The final cause of the natural system of procedure is the fulfilment of the several ends of justice.

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    To delineate the author of the plan of /of the course actually pursued by/ the system /For determining a person to a certain degree of correctness/ nothing more is necessary than to /we need therefore but to/ investigation and note down the results under the [...?] of which the interest of a man in the situation of the man of law will /would/ necessarily had him to wish to see come to pass: in other words, among the evils opposite to the ends of justice to note down such as are be under productive of profit to himself /personal advantage/, and the substance of the several arrangements which in the character of men's promise to be conducive to the accomplishment of these sinister ends.

    1 Desirable result or end or objects of the man of law collected under one general denomination and thence placed in the most general point of view - extracting in every shape the maximum /aggregate/ of profit extractable from the whole number of suits of all sorts springing up of themselves or producible in the community in question within the /a/ given space of time.

    2 The number of suits being given, and the quantum of profit extractable from each operation of a /and [...?]/ given length and from each instrument of a given length being given, the quantum of profit extractable from the aggregate of suits will be as the number of operations and instruments in each suit. Second object increasing the number of operations performed and of instruments made and uttered on the occasion /in the course/ of the aggregate of suits.
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    The technical system in this its essential points being introduced /established/, the next object of consideration (in explanation at least posterior though in truth and operation perhaps simultaneous /[...?]/) the next object in consideration at least is by what means /ulterior arrangements/ /subordinate principles and arrangements/ the advantage gained by it was to be made the most of.

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