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17 June 1804 Procedure B 4
17 June 1804

Procedure B

4 (1)

Ends

Ch.1

'.2. General Ends

'.2. General ends of procedure

Our business in the present work is with the system of judicial procedure - with the rules, (call them rules, laws, provisions, regulations) of which it is capable of being composed: with the one main and general end with the several specific or subordinate ends that in the framing it ought to be kept in view: and to the attainment of which these rules and each distinguishable part of them ought to be directed with the plan of contrivances by which they may be rendered so many means with relation to those respective ends.

To form a clear conception of those several objects, it is /will be/ necessary to call to mind a leading distinction already brought to view: the distintion between the substantive and the adjective branch of the body of the laws. To the substantive which is the main branch belongs every law that does not blong to the adjective: every law shich serves /is capable of serving/ as a rule of conduct to the subject, considered on any other occasion than that of his being engaged in a course of litigation before a Court of Justice. To the adjective branch every law, or particle of law, the sole use and object of which is to give effect to the several laws which appertain to the main or substantive branch, as above delineated.

Note (a)

(a) In Grammar a noun substantive presents a compleat signification of itself, and therefore without the addition of a noun adjective: a noun adjective presents no compleat signification of itself, presents a sense[?] which is but as it were begun, untill compeated by the addition of a import annexed to some noun substantive.

/every law therefore which to the conception of any reader would be apt without [...?] [...?] intimation to the contrary, to be presented by the word law.

(2a) Distinction between satifaction and adjective taken from grammar.
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