[036-123v]

1821 Nov. 26

Codification Proposal

'.5 Draughtsman single

I. It is the interest of the community at large /greatest number/, that while the facility of obtaining the service due from Judges to suitors be as great as possible, the number of instances in which application is actually made for it be as small as possible: that thus the aggregate /the quantity/ of the evils of litigation namely, expence delay and vexation be as small as possible. It is the interest of the lawyer class that the number of these applications be as great as possible: that so of the quantity /aggregate/ of the expence the portion /the quantity of/ which in the shape of professional profit comes into their hands may be as great as possible.

II. It is the interest of the greatest number that the expence attendant on those same applications be as small as possible It is the interest of the lawyer class that the quantity of their profit be as great as possible, and thence that the expence to which their profit bears a proportion /every part of the expence by which their profit is encreased/ be as great as possible

As it is the interest of the greatest number that, consistently with the utmost facility of demand and defence the number of suits of all sorts be as small as possible, so is it the interest that of all circumstances the effect /tendency/ of which is to give encrease to the number the force should be as small as possible. For the same /opposite/ reason it is the interest of the lawyer class that that force be as great as possible.