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17 June 1805 Evidence Introd
17 June 1805

Evidence

Introd.

Ch. Procedure Technical

''5. Exclusion of Parties [...?]

Here then we have separate & distinguishable five distinct masses of advantages reaped by the lawyer from every penny of factitious expence added by him to the expence naturally attendant on the system of procedure: - 1. immediate pecuniary profit: viz the amount of the profit extracted by him out of that expence form the suits which it has not had the effect of preventing - the number of profit yielding suits remaining the same: - 2. case, by the amount of unprofit yielding suits prevented by it. 3. pecuniary profit produced in a less immediate way by the encrease in the number of profit-yielding suits - amount of mala fide oppression suits, mala fide demands and mala fide defences, suits produced by the man of law by selling the irresistible faculty of oppression to every wrong doer who finding his adversary, destitute of the faculty of assistance is able & willing to come up /make the purchase/ to the vendor's price - 4. convenience of acting in pleasant company - 5. convenience of not being troubled by unwelcome company.
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