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4 July 1804 Procedure & Evidence
4 July 1804

Procedure & Evidence

Note Evils causes

3d order

'.3 Non-decision

Note (a)

(a) A few instances /A rare and heteroclite sort of case/ will be mentioned /brought to view/ in its place /further on/ /in proper ----/, in which a cause may be, and is sometimes /is,/ carried on without a complainant /demandant/ the same person ---ling /adding/ the function of the plaintiff to the office of the judge /that of the judge/.

Setting aside this /that/ heteroclite sort of case, so long as there is no demandant, and thence no demand, there can not be any decision. no decision either on that side or the ---- can take place /be pronounced/ never ---- takes place. With regard to the ------ of the parties in respect of the result of the suit, it is exactly the same, setting aside the incidental evils of vexation and expence, as it would be if the complaint having been instituted, a wrongful decision /adverse/ to the prejudice of the plffs side had been pronounced.

But to an individual whose station is on the plaintiff's side /of the demandant/ - to an individual who stands in need of a service to be rendered to him by the judge, the effect of non-decision, which so long as it lasts, is exactly to same as that of wrongful decision - a decision importing a wrongful refusal to render him that service.
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    '.i. Prejudice to plff. Independent

    1 Independent evils of the first class - Injustice to the prejudice of the plaintiffs /demandant's/ side -----ion of justice in its several branches non-fulfilment of the main end of judicial procedure in its /these/ several branches, viz: non-application of punishment when due - non-collation of rights when due - non-administration /rendition[?]/ of satisfaction where due. Immediate cause or causes of the 1st order. Cause 1. - Wrongful decision to the prejudice of the plaintiff's side that the effects in question have for their cause the operation there denominated, is a proposition /truth/ assented to as soon as announced, or rather before it is announced. Instead of doubling its efficiency the natural movement of the mind on this occasion is rather to ask - to what other cause - meaning immediate cause - can the effect ever be ----able? The answer to this question will be brought to view /appear/ immediately.

    I. Natural causes

    1. Wrongful decision to the prejudice of the plaintiff's /demandant's/ side: viz: where the causes of the /such/ wrongfulness are themselves natural. See infra causes of the 3d order - Causes of wrongful decision.

    2. Non-justiciability of the deft. viz: with reference to the nature of the demand - of the service demanded or that would have been demanded at the hands of the judge: - of the defendant - or of him who were it not for the known or supposed impracticability of extracting from him the service in demand (for example the ---ial of the debr. dare) or an equivalent, would have been made defendant. (a)

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    Description: 4 July 1804

    Procedure & Evidence

    Evils causes

    3d order

    '.1. 4. Non-decision

    III. Non-decision

    Immediate causes of this evil /----/

    I. Natural causes

    1 to 5 The same as in the case of Wrongful Decision to the prejudice of the Demandant.

    6. Non-demand:- no suit instituted by the party to whose prejudice the offence against the substantive branch of the law has been committed; or on whom the -----trable or -----rate right would, on demand in a legal way be converted into a consummate right. For the causes of non-demand see title non-demand.

    9. Desistment: - the demandant ceasing to prosecute /persevere in/ the demand.

    II. Factitious causes negative

    1 and 2. The same as in case of Wrongful Decision.

    III. Factitious causes positive none observed - or see title non-notoriety and uncertainty.

    For the causes of expence and vexation and expence, see Evils of the 4th Order.
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    3d order

    '.2 Wrongful decision to Def.

    II. Wrongful Decision to the prejudice of the Defendant Immediate causes of this evil.

    I. Natural causes the same as in case of Wrongful Decision to the prejudice of the plff's side.

    II. So likewise, the negative among the factitious causes among the factitious causes, those of the negative stamp.

    III. So likewise those of the positive stamp; with the exception of no. 3 and 4. Laws authorizing pardon without reason assigned, whether so ------, or ----- by the power of fabricating causes of nullity. But in this case /---/ the exception extends not to non-penal cases: ---- in these the defendant as well as the demandant is liable to be prejudiced by such fabricated causes of nullity, although in these cases the the injustice is more apt to fall on the demandant's side than on the defendant's.