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24 Jan y 1808 On L d Eldons Bill
24 Jan y 1808

On L d Eldons Bill

IV. Sign Manual Commiss

That it will not answer in any considerable degree the purpose which the interest of the people /the ends of justice/ to the quality[?] /character/ of suitors require to be answered may be affirmed with equal confidence.

The sort of work [...?] were it a compleat system of procedure covering /at the same time/ in [...?] what to[?] whole of the field of judicature and the whole collection[?] /entire assemblings/ of the judicatures that are at work upon it, were[?] then it would be imperfect and in such sort imperfect as to be incapable of answering to any considerable degree of perfection its /professedly[?]/ intended purpose. But it does no such thing: for if the existing sorts /shapes/ of judicatures existing and habitually at work in Scotland it omitts more than it includes.

Those which it includes are of national Courts the Court of Session: of local Courts the Sheriff's Courts.

Those which it omitts are - of national courts, the Court of Justiciary[?], the Court of [...?], the powerful[?] Commission Court and the principal Admiralty Court:- of local Courts, the Courts of Justices of the Peace sitting in Sessions General or Special, the Borough Courts, the [...?] of Guilds Courts, the Borough Courts, and happily the Small debt Courts, the local Commissionary Courts, and the local Admiralty Courts.
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